[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg extremely high consumption

En Figureo Canal figureo56.com at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 00:09:56 CEST 2015


Thanks Henk for your reply, I just learned something new with your post.

Didn't know -crf would override -vb. I know the source video was encoded
with x264 but, had other videos in different format. But, is great to know
that tip before feeding videos.

Thanks a lot.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Henk D. Schoneveld <belcampo at zonnet.nl>
wrote:

>
> On 13 Jun 2015, at 15:42, En Figureo Canal <figureo56.com at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi En,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 14:23:24 -0400, En Figureo Canal wrote:
> >>> Now, what other options are there using libx264, if any?
> >>
> >> Well, have you read my email? Why do I go to the trouble of writing
> >> those things if you don't engage with it.
> >>
> >> E.g.:
> >>
> >>>> If you showed us the complete, uncut output, we could see what the
> >>>> specs of your streams are and whether something is wrong. This way,
> >>>> without more info, we don't even know which resolution your material
> >>>> has.
> >>
> >> Have you shown us your uncut console output?
> >>
> >> And:
> >>
> >>>> - use a different preset (e.g. "-preset fast")
> >>>> and experiment with both.
> >>>> You could even copy the input stream, if its specs are sufficient.
> That
> >>>> reduces CPU significantly.
> >>
> >> Have you tried these things? What have you experimented? If the "fast"
> >> preset doesn't suffice, try "ultrafast". Honestly, there can be a large
> >> CPU difference. (I have achieved 3x from "faster" to "ultrafast" with
> >> SD TV material.)
> >>
> >> Another thing: Is your libx264 and ffmpeg compiled with proper yasm
> >> support?
> >>
> >> Moritz
> >>
> >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> >> A: Top-posting.
> >> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> >
> > Thank you Moritz Barsnick for replying again and taking your time to help
> > me out with my problem.
> >
> > I do read your emails, if I'm top posting please pardon me. Gmail input
> is
> > what might be top posting.
> >
> > I experimented using "ultrafast" and indeed lowered the cpu stress to 50%
> > which is a great improvement this is how I run the command:
> >
> > ffmpeg -re -i /video.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -s 640x360 -vb 1024k -crf 23
> > -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p -maxrate 1256k -bufsize 1256k -ab 96k
> -f
> > flv rtmp://ip/live/test
> >
> > And this is the output:
> >
> > ffmpeg version 2.5.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
> >  built on Apr 27 2015 21:49:23 with gcc 4.7 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
> >  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static
> > --extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include
> > --extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin --enable-gpl
> > --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype
> > --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora
> --enable-libvorbis
> > --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-nonfree
> >  libavutil      54. 15.100 / 54. 15.100
> >  libavcodec     56. 13.100 / 56. 13.100
> >  libavformat    56. 15.102 / 56. 15.102
> >  libavdevice    56.  3.100 / 56.  3.100
> >  libavfilter     5.  2.103 /  5.  2.103
> >  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
> >  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
> >  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
> > Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/video.mp4':
> >  Metadata:
> >    major_brand     : mp42
> >    minor_version   : 0
> >    compatible_brands: isommp42
> >    creation_time   : 2015-03-03 16:28:42
> >  Duration: 01:41:30.90, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 712 kb/s
> >    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 /
> > 0x31637661), yuv420p, 640x360 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 638 kb/s, 29.97 fps,
> > 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
> If you look at the line above you see that your source already is h264,
> and the bitrate being 712kb/s.
> So encoding doesn’t make sense, at least not to me. -vcodec copy should
> result in almost no CPU consuming at all.
> Beside that -vb 1024k followed by -crf 23 also doesn’t make sense, the
> last overrules the former, -crf  ’takes’ what it needs for that quality
> thereby ignoring -vb #
> Further the used x264 library is from 2012, the last binary is from 24 feb
> 2015, r2538 121396c, the newer versions will be more efficient.
> >    Metadata:
> >      handler_name    : VideoHandler
> >    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono,
> > fltp, 72 kb/s (default)
> >    Metadata:
> >      creation_time   : 2015-03-03 16:29:33
> >      handler_name    : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
> > [libx264 @ 0x255e260] using SAR=1/1
> > [libx264 @ 0x255e260] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Slow SlowCTZ
> > [libx264 @ 0x255e260] profile Constrained Baseline, level 3.0
> > [libx264 @ 0x255e260] 264 - core 123 r2189 35cf912 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
> codec
> > - Copyleft 2003-2012 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options:
> cabac=0
> > ref=1 deblock=0:0:0 analyse=0:0 me=dia subme=0 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00
> > mixed_ref=0 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=0 cqm=0
> deadzone=21,11
> > fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=3 sliced_threads=0 nr=0
> decimate=1
> > interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=0
> > keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=0 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=0 rc=crf
> > mbtree=0 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 vbv_maxrate=1256
> > vbv_bufsize=1256 crf_max=0.0 nal_hrd=none ip_ratio=1.40 aq=0
> > Output #0, flv, to 'rtmp://69.64.49.252/live/test':
> >  Metadata:
> >    major_brand     : mp42
> >    minor_version   : 0
> >    compatible_brands: isommp42
> >    encoder         : Lavf56.15.102
> >    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (libx264) ([7][0][0][0] / 0x0007),
> > yuv420p, 640x360 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=-1--1, 1024 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 1k
> tbn,
> > 29.97 tbc (default)
> >    Metadata:
> >      handler_name    : VideoHandler
> >      encoder         : Lavc56.13.100 libx264
> >    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: mp3 (libmp3lame) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002),
> > 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 96 kb/s (default)
> >    Metadata:
> >      creation_time   : 2015-03-03 16:29:33
> >      handler_name    : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
> >      encoder         : Lavc56.13.100 libmp3lame
> > Stream mapping:
> >  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> h264 (libx264))
> >  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (aac (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
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