My first pass at encoding combined find with ffmpeg to re-encode all my avi files. comment – not seen by plex but handy to know about anyway.The metadata values I ended up using were: The syntax for ffmpeg is -metadata 'key=value' Instead I discovered you can use ffmpeg to encode things like title and date taken directly into the file.

I tried to use exiftools to add metadata to the file but Plex wouldn’t read it. ffmpeg -i -acodec libfdk_aac -b:a 192k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -crf 18 -preset veryslow. Thanks to here and here I found a quality setting that I liked: x264 video with crf of 18 and veryslow encoder preset, AAC audio at 192kbps, mp4 container. I ended up having to re-encode most of them to have a proper codec.įfmpeg is what I ended up using. Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv, smpte170m, top first), 720x480, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.Below are the tips and tricks I’ve learned in my quest to get all my family home movies working properly in Plex. The subtitle track, however, is not needed. Which tool is used is immaterial as long as it's commonly available under Linux.ĮDIT: here is the output of ffmpeg -analyzeduration 100M -probesize 100M -i file.VOB I would appreciate examples that give good quality deinterlaced MP4/AVI from VOB files. (I want MPEG4/lavc encoding let's not bother with x264). Moreover some mencoder options I find are no longer valid anyway. But despite all googling I'm getting dodgy quality, notably, bad deinterlacing. I want to do it with the command line whether it's mencoder or ffmpeg (or even vlc if I can master its command line) is immaterial. The original resolution is 720p and I want 720p, but need to scale as the pixels are not square (720x480 to I need to make AVI/MP4 files for uploading online. I have some VOB files, grabbed from DVDs.

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