No. The "mp" in "mp4" stands for Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), which implies MPEG compression (*MPEG-4 Part 14*, specifically). Compression here is the opposite of what you're trying to achieve. Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+ On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 15:06 Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt bgr24 output.avi > > should be the one. but would > > ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt bgr24 output.mp4 > > give me a conversion from flv (the original format) to mp4 with just a stream of pictures like we want? > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 4:47 PM Michael wrote: > >> would this work? >> https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-decompress-a-video-file-in-FFmpeg >> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 4:40 PM Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> OK, the file you are trying to convert is already as small as it is >>> going to get. This from fileinfo.com: Before 2007, OGG files were >>> used to store various types of media, but since then the Xiph.Org >>> Foundation recommends that OGG files store only audio data. Now, you will >>> most likely encounter only OGG files that store audio data compressed with >>> Vorbis compression. >>> >>> Since the file is already compressed the reason for your stuttering is >>> that the player is trying to uncompress while playing and appears not to be >>> powerful enough to do it smoothly. I think what you should be doing is >>> uncompressing the file into its full uncompressed file size, then the video >>> player doesn't have to do the work any more. The actual uncompress work >>> would be done by ffmpeg which will probably take a long time. Changing the >>> scale might help, but trying to reconvert it to another format is just >>> going to make it bigger every time and probably still stutter. >>> >>> Since I've never tried to uncompress a video file, I don't know what the >>> settings would be. You have to do some googling to find that ffmpeg >>> uncompress video >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:56 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < >>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Okay.... these are the questions I will have concerning converting my >>>> flv to ogg while scaling the resolution. >>>> Is it as simple as stating: >>>> ffmpeg .flv -vf scale=-1:720 .ogg >>>> ? >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss