I have several questions about choices used for ffmpeg parameters in the default profiles. I typically am transcoding to MKV/h264. Here are my questions:
1) Why are you using 2pass in most of our profiles? It seems like everyone is using CRF instead. I switched to CRF about a year ago and have done a lot of testing and can't tell the difference from your highest quality profile and it takes much less time to transcode? See my ffmpeg custom profile settings below. I get great high quality results with this.
2) It would be really handy to allow MCEBuddy users the ability to set a desired framerate. The biggest reason I HAVE to use a custom profile to begin with is because I can't set the framerate through the GUI. I stream most of my content to devices that can't handle 60fps so I always transcode to 30fps. Is this something you would consider adding to a future release?
ffmpeg-video=-ss 3 -vf yadif=0:-1,hqdn3d -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -crf 17 -r 30000/1001 -maxrate 8000k -x264opts level=4.1:threads=auto -map 0:a -map 0:v
ffmpeg-audio=-acodec ac3 -ab 192k
ffmpeg-audioac3=-acodec ac3 -ab 384k
ffmpeg-ext=.mkv
ffmpeg-audiodelay=skip
1) Why are you using 2pass in most of our profiles? It seems like everyone is using CRF instead. I switched to CRF about a year ago and have done a lot of testing and can't tell the difference from your highest quality profile and it takes much less time to transcode? See my ffmpeg custom profile settings below. I get great high quality results with this.
2) It would be really handy to allow MCEBuddy users the ability to set a desired framerate. The biggest reason I HAVE to use a custom profile to begin with is because I can't set the framerate through the GUI. I stream most of my content to devices that can't handle 60fps so I always transcode to 30fps. Is this something you would consider adding to a future release?
ffmpeg-video=-ss 3 -vf yadif=0:-1,hqdn3d -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -crf 17 -r 30000/1001 -maxrate 8000k -x264opts level=4.1:threads=auto -map 0:a -map 0:v
ffmpeg-audio=-acodec ac3 -ab 192k
ffmpeg-audioac3=-acodec ac3 -ab 384k
ffmpeg-ext=.mkv
ffmpeg-audiodelay=skip
