Wednesday, May 25, 2016

impressive CPU offload and FPS boost from NVidia "nvenc" codec

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As I just purchased an NVidia GeForce GTX 970, I installed the FFmpeg "nvenc" codec to see if I would gain any benefits from the h...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

lossless encoding from H264 to MPEGTS

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For editing purposes, I needed a good way to losslessly encode video from my Canon 5D Mark II's H264 source to a format that allows me t...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

a simple way to render H264 content directly from Cinelerra

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Use presets! The FFmpeg encoding guide has excellent information on using presets: http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/x264EncodingGuide ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

proper dmesg output for a high-speed USB device

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It's nice when things work the way they are supposed to.  For instance, it's nice to see dmesg output that tells you that you're...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

convert video into an animated gif

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Why would someone want to do that?  One use would be to use the animated gif as a profile pic on a social media site or an avatar for a user...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

joining, concatenating video files

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I was trying to combine four MP4's and had a bit of a learning experience, so I thought I'd share. Here are the four files I was t...
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get detailed information about a video file

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Here are a few ways to get detailed information about a video file using mplayer, ffmpeg or mencoder.  Pardon the format weirdness..blogger ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

recording desktop with ffmpeg

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I had this idea that I'm going to start interviewing folks on different technical topics via Skype or Google Hangout.  Normally, I would...