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Old 4th November 2015, 05:16   #21  |  Link
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I think my question was pretty clear, and you are dismissing it. The link is the one I posted twice.

And I don't care about what's "official". I care about what's better.
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And I don't care about what's "official". I care about what's better.
I don't know what you are babbling about anymore, if you are convinced ffmpeg is somehow better at encoding vp9 despite using the exact same library as the upstream encoder, then just use it.
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Old 15th November 2015, 11:27   #23  |  Link
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The thread and links posted are there for any idiot with two eyes to take a look at.

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if you are convinced ffmpeg is somehow better at encoding vp9 despite using the exact same library as the upstream encoder, then just use it.
What I am convinced of is that ffmpeg is not a haphazard little project, and that its docs have more merit than some random person on a forum. Not 100% certain that it's better, but I certainly got no definitive answers, here.

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vp9, on the other hand, is a haphazard little project that seems more poorly managed than a lot of community projects. Google only seems to care about it as far as it can be used to reduce Youtube's bandwidth bills, and any attempt to mimic x264's and x265's excellent command line, multicore use, rate control, and exhaustive documentation are basically ignored.

I gave the new release a shot, but I didn't bother with a full test suite, it wasn't noticeably faster than 1.4 nor any better quality in the first (although some artifacts changed). They haven't updated the rate control, so what's the point in testing two-pass, it'll still be just as wildly off. Maybe it's just ARM optimizations.

Edit: Missed that this was a splinter thread, not the main VP9 thread.
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I found a compromise to get some kind of quick seeking (in most cases). 2-pass with '-auto-alt-ref 1' on pass 2. Overall, this is how I'm getting better results on low resolution content, especially flat pixels video:

ffmpeg -i [input] -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 28 -threads 4 -speed 1 -f webm -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v 0 -an -sn -pass 1 /dev/null
ffmpeg -i [input] -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 28 -threads 4 -speed 1 -f webm -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v 0 -an -sn -pass 2 -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 [output].webm

In a way, that's even more desirable, because it tends to seek where the scene changes. But if the pixels on screen never completely swap out, still no fast seek with ffmpeg vp9 constant quality.
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I found a compromise to get some kind of quick seeking (in most cases). 2-pass with '-auto-alt-ref 1' on pass 2. Overall, this is how I'm getting better results on low resolution content, especially flat pixels video:

ffmpeg -i [input] -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 28 -threads 4 -speed 1 -f webm -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v 0 -an -sn -pass 1 /dev/null
ffmpeg -i [input] -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 28 -threads 4 -speed 1 -f webm -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v 0 -an -sn -pass 2 -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 [output].webm

In a way, that's even more desirable, because it tends to seek where the scene changes. But if the pixels on screen never completely swap out, still no fast seek with ffmpeg vp9 constant quality.
You need to explicitly set the GOP. Try passing '-g 250'.
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You need to explicitly set the GOP. Try passing '-g 250'.
The problem with that is that it tends to add size to some encodes.

I encoded a 3 minute sample of content I knew would produce the seeking issue, despite auto-alt-ref. First with -g 250, then without. All else the same.

The gop set file is 30,979,544 bytes.
The file without gop set is 28,246,134 bytes.

Not much, but there's still a difference. So I guess bigger file size is the price for guaranteeing some kind of quick seek.

Be that as it may, with or without gop, auto-alt-ref still helps a lot in most videos, and this makes vp9 more usable for my purposes.

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Not much, but there's still a difference. So I guess bigger file size is the price for guaranteeing some kind of quick seek.
Of course. For proper seeking you need more I frames, and I frames take up space.
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Pass "-g seconds" as an encoding parameter

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Is there a way to get VP9 video to seek properly? I only have mpv to work with, and the version of VLC I'm using can't play VP9. But I also try playing on chrome and the same thing happens. On firefox, too, and there the colors in the video are all messed up, but that's another issue.

Here is a short sample that I encoded with ffmpeg (libvpx-vp9). When you try to seek forward, which is 10 seconds on mpv, it goes to 00:02:46. Is there supposed to be some encoding option to get around this issue?
This is a strange default for ffmpeg with libvpx, the max distance between key-frames is 9999, you should pass something like '-g 150' when encoding to make it about 5 seconds.
http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#libvpx
https://github.com/Kagami/webm.py/wi...tings#defaults
https://chromium.googlesource.com/we...x_iface.c#1440

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