I get it, the .flv file is already small so don't convert it to mp4. What
do you recommend? I already tried to not convert it but the terminal
complained about the raw video option not being able to play with that file
format. Hmmmmm..... I suppose mov would work. No?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:37 PM Snyder, Alexander J <
alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote:
> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <in file>.flv -vf scale=-1:720 <out file>.ogg
>>>>> ?
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