[FFmpeg-user] 3 points jpeg to timelapse issue

[Lou]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:52:06 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> jb <jul.blon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12 -i FILE%04d.JPG -r 12 -s 864x648 
> > -vcodec libx264 output.mp4
> > (original files are ~1.1MB, 2592 x 1944 jpegs)
> 
> (Complete, uncut console output missing.)
> 
> You neither provide a bitrate nor a constant quantizer so 
> a (small) bitrate is chosen.

Default for libx264 is "-crf 23" (ridiculously ancient builds excluded).