使用 ffmpeg 对高质量视频进行编码

我有一套视频帧保存在一个目录中的图像,我试图编码到一个良好的质量视频,但每一个设置和每一种格式,我尝试生产非常明显的工件。

基本命令是这样的:

ffmpeg -r 25 -i %4d.png myvideo.mpg

我已经尝试了 minrate 和 maxrate 标志,任何{ mpg,avi,mov,flv }格式都可以。

对设置有什么建议吗? 最终文件大小不是问题。

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Unless you do some kind of post-processing work, the video will never be better than the original frames. Also just like a flip-book, if you have a big "jump" between keyframes it will look funny. You generally need enough "tweens" in between the keyframes to give smooth animation. HTH

You need to specify the -vb option to increase the video bitrate, otherwise you get the default which produces smaller videos but with more artifacts.

Try something like this:

ffmpeg -r 25 -i %4d.png -vb 20M myvideo.mpg

A couple of things:

  • You need to set the video bitrate. I have never used minrate and maxrate so I don't know how exactly they work, but by setting the bitrate using the -b switch, I am able to get high quality video. You need to come up with a bitrate that offers a good tradeoff between compression and video quality. You may have to experiment with this because it all depends on the frame size, frame rate and the amount of motion in the content of your video. Keep in mind that DVD tends to be around 4-5 Mbit/s on average for 720x480, so I usually start from there and decide whether I need more or less and then just experiment. For example, you could add -b 5000k to the command line to get more or less DVD video bitrate.

  • You need to specify a video codec. If you don't, ffmpeg will default to MPEG-1 which is quite old and does not provide near the amount of compression as MPEG-4 or H.264. If your ffmpeg version is built with libx264 support, you can specify -vcodec libx264 as part of the command line. Otherwise -vcodec mpeg4 will also do a better job than MPEG-1, but not as well as x264.

  • There are a lot of other advanced options that will help you squeeze out the best quality at the lowest bitrates. Take a look here for some examples.

Make sure the PNGs are fully opaque before creating the video

e.g. with imagemagick, give them a black background:

convert 0.png -background black -flatten +matte 0_opaque.png

From my tests, no bitrate or codec is sufficient to make the video look good if you feed ffmpeg PNGs with transparency