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4 Running the File Consumer
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7 The file consumer uses ffmpeg to encode video.
9 The encoding will automatically take advantage of multi-core CPUs.
11 To start the file consumer you to send the following command:
17 If the "-f" or "-vcodec/-acodec" option is not supplied then the container format and appropriate codec will be automatically deduced from the file extension.
19 To stop writing to the file send:
26 The file consumer follows commandline arguments syntax used by ffmpeg, see ffmpeg for more options. Some of the available options are:
30 -f // container format
31 -vcodec // vicdeo codec
32 -pix_fmt // pixel_format
36 -acodec // audio codec
37 -ar // audio samplerate
43 ADD 1 FILE myfile.mov -vcodec dnxhd
44 ADD 1 FILE myfile.mov -vcodec prores
45 ADD 1 FILE myfile.mov -vcodec dvvideo
46 ADD 1 FILE myfile.mov -vcodec libx264
48 For the above formats have already provided high quality default parameters.
54 ADD 1 FILE myfile.mov -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -tune fastdecode -crf 5