[FFmpeg-user] -Preset Ultrafast (and my email) not working

[Tom Evans]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Alek <peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net> wrote:
> Ok....this should work better now.
>
>
> I'm converting some .MTS files into DVD-mpeg files.
>
> Here's the code I use-
>
> ffmpeg -i InputFileName.MTS  -preset ultrafast  -deinterlace  -target ntsc-dvd OutputFilename.mpeg
>
> In the past the -preset ultrafast worked fine (at least I'm pretty sure I used it) but now for some reason it doesn't.
> Maybe I'm wrong....it has been a while.
>
> Any ideas how to solve it?
>
> Here's the Terminal output-
>
> Alek$ ffmpeg -i 00000.MTS -preset ultrafast -deinterlace -target ntsc-dvd WOOF.mpeg
> ffmpeg version git-2013-12-17-fca7943 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
>   built on Dec 17 2013 10:30:22 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
>   configuration: --prefix=/home/kids/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/home/kids/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/kids/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/home/kids/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-x11grab
>   libavutil      53.  0.100 / 53.  0.100
>   libavcodec     55. 45.101 / 55. 45.101
>   libavformat    55. 22.100 / 55. 22.100
>   libavdevice    55.  5.102 / 55.  5.102
>   libavfilter     4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
>   libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
>   libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
>   libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
> Input #0, mpegts, from '00000.MTS':
>   Duration: 00:00:20.51, start: 1.033367, bitrate: 22582 kb/s
>   Program 1
>     Stream #0:0[0x1011]: Video: h264 (High) (HDMV / 0x564D4448), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
>     Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 256 kb/s
>     Stream #0:2[0x1200]: Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090), 1920x1080
> Codec AVOption preset (Set the encoding preset (cf. x264 --fullhelp)) specified for output file #0 (WOOF.mpeg) has not been used for any stream.
> The most likely reason is either wrong type (e.g. a video option with no video streams) or that it is a private option of some encoder which was not actually used for any stream.
>

You are trying to apply an x264 preset to the mpeg2 encoder, the mpeg2
encoder has no preset argument, hence the error.

Cheers

Tom