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  File size/present question for h.265.

  Posted by Christophe Pettus on November 26, 2018 at 11:06 pm

  I’m using ffmpeg on the command line to encode video from a QuickTime ProRes 4444p DCI-resolution source to h.265, y420p. It’s working just fine, but I noticed something very odd: If I change nothing but the preset, the file size goes down as the encoding speed goes up:

  Preset and resulting file size:

  • veryslow: 5814379
  • slower: 5812081
  • slow: 5640739
  • medium: 5455779
  • fast: 5164506
  • faster: 5099833
  • veryfast: 5108824 (file size starts going up from this point)

  My question is: This is rather the opposite from what I’d expect. Am I missing something obvious?

  Christophe Pettus replied 7 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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