[solved] Looking for a simple YouTube video converter

Hello,
I am not a video expert and all my video editing is limited to converting my videos to a YouTube optimised format before uploading onto the platform.
At the moment I am using transcoder. However, I would prefer an other more minimal program which comes with predefined export profiles for optimal quality for YouTube.
Does anyone of you use a very minimal and leightweight converter which is sufficient for YouTube videos?
Regards
Last edited by orschiro (2012-11-28 21:40:13)

drcouzelis wrote:You only need to learn the optimal YouTube configuration for the crazy ffmpeg command line options once, and then you can just use that to convert your videos.
Since YouTube will re-encode anything you upload the best practice is to upload the original content. This isn't always practical of course, so you can re-encode it for a more manageable file size, but still high enough quality that it won't needlessly suffer when YouTube takes a dump on it. Here's an example that will work with ffmpeg from the repository,  ffmpeg-1:1.0-2:
ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a copy output.mkv
The two options of interest are -crf and -preset. The basic methodology when using crf is to use the highest value that still gives you an acceptable quality and the slowest preset you have patience for. See  FFmpeg and x264 Encoding Guide for more information. This example will also simply copy the audio from the input to the output. If you want to re-encode the audio, such as if your input audio is uncompressed, replace "-c:a copy" with "-c:a libmp3lame -q:a 3" or "-c:a libvorbis -q:a 6" for a high-quality output.
skanky wrote:A search for ffmpeg and youtube brings up a few things that might do the job,
This might be do the job? - http://shahidhussain.com/optimize-video … th-ffmpeg/
That is a terribly outdated example: it resizes the video to 320x240, changes the frame rate, and uses 800 bits/s for a video bitrate. That's bits, not kilobits!

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