[FFmpeg-user] Help Getting a higher quality windows-style format from an MP4

Luke Davis l1 at newanswertech.com
Sat Jul 5 21:51:22 CEST 2014


On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Luke Davis wrote:

> Hello
>
> First, I am no video guy, so there is a great deal I don't know about the 
> terminology and best practices.  This is probably trivial for most of you.
>
> I have a need to play an MP4 file on some very big screens, from a rather 
> flaky Windows computer.
>
> I am trying to convert the MP4 into something that doesn't require quicktime 
> (I.E. more windows friendly).  I thought first of ASF, but am open to other 
> options.
>
> Source MP4 (extract from youtube, using youtube-dl -f best):
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/vk3qglmfgizgajg/There%20She%20Stands%20-%20Michael%20W.%20Smith-i2hvouzjswo.mp4
>
> First attempt:
> ffmpeg -i file.mp4 file.asf
>
> That works fine, but the quality frankly sucks.
>
> Result: 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2bvbbcdgdu4bj0/There%20She%20Stands%20-%20Michael%20W.%20Smith_non-quicktime.asf
>
> Pixilation, etc..  I next tried this:
>
> ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -an -b 2020 file.asf
>
> Result: 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9k2vqulc52i3wd/There%20She%20Stands%20-%20Michael%20W.%20Smith%20%28Windows%20version%29.asf
>
> (I don't care about audio)
>
> What can I do to improve the quality of this process?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Luke

My apologies, but if anyone answered this, I didn't see it--the list decided I 
was bouncing messages again, and cut me off.

Luke



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