how can I improve this video?

[wwuster]

I created this video with fmpeg -i icos%03d.tga icos.mpg on linux:

(replaced video)

Is there a way to get higher quality video using ffmpeg. I tried to use the h264 codec but I keep getting an error message about the codec being unknown.

thanks

[Baldrick]

The easiest is just to increase the bitrate as much as possible to avoid compression artifacts, like "-b 3000k". Just google for ffmpeg examples and you will get several tips, like for example http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8517

And to be able to use h264 you need a ffmpeg compiled with libx264.

[wwuster]

I found this thread about enabling h264 for ffmpeg on Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

It works great and the video looks much better.

thanks

[wwuster]

Here's the vid with H264:

ffmpeg -i $fname%03d.tga -pass 1 -vcodec libx264 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 512k -bt 512k -threads 0 -f rawvideo -an -y /dev/null
ffmpeg -i $fname%03d.tga -pass 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -b 512k -bt 512k -threads 0 $fname.mp4

Any recomendations to improve the quality in this case?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl89fjddL3g

I see that the video starts off weird on youtube, but plays fine on my computer.

Thanks