FFMPEG not getting a smooth video - ffmpeg

I am trying to record my screen using ffmpeg but i am not getting a smooth video. Below is the command line code used. I am using windows 10;
ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -i desktop output.mp4
is there is any extra setting to get a good video
Currently output video is playing like missing frames

I myself found the answer, I changed the code like below
ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 24 -probesize 42M -i desktop -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p camera1.mp4
Actual i had a warning "Stream #0: not enough frames to estimate rate; consider increasing probesize" so i increased the probesize and added the ultrafast preset.
Now it is recording with good quality...

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FFmpeg is not using all frames for video output

I am trying to use FFmpeg to make 1457 frames into a video, and it's not working.
I am using this command:
ffmpeg -i "frame%6d.png" -framerate 24 -c:v libx265 -preset slow -crf 17 -vf "scale=4096x4096" -pix_fmt yuv420p -an -movflags faststart -r 24 "video.mp4"
The problem is that it stops collecting frames after 1399, and I have no idea why. I have tried changing to fps=24 instead of -r 24 for the output but that didn't work. I have also tried adding one more frame at the end of the image sequence and then the command stopped after frame 1400. I also tried changing the name of the last frame to a bigger number but then the command stopped at frame 1399 again. Why is this happening?

Why getting ffmpeg error/warning : Past duration 0.933205 too large ? Getting a lot of it when recording the desktop as video file

This is the command :
ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 24 -i desktop -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p player.mp4
Not sure how to fix it.
Add -vsync 0 when recording a live capture.
Also, your ffmpeg is 4.0 or earlier. The message won't appear with your original command in 4.1 or later.

FFMPEG, any video to 16:9

Help me find a command or script that will convert any video to 16:9, h264 and ~2500kbps. I have a server where people upload videos of different quality, size and length. It can be either 640x480 or 1216x2160. Ultimately, I need to get any resolution to 16:9 (with black borders, if needs) and bitrate without visible loss of quality, which will be acceptable for online broadcasting.
I have this command, but it does not check the resolution of the video. And if the video was 560x448 1000kbps and 700mb, then after conversion it will be 1280x720 3000kbps and 1.5gb, that's not right.
ffmpeg -i 5.avi -vcodec libx264 -crf 23 -preset veryfast -vf scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2,setsar=1 -tune zerolatency highoutput.mp4
Please try the following as a starting point:
ffmpeg -i "5.avi" -vcodec libx264 -crf 23 -vf "scale=w=trunc(ih*dar/2)*2:h=trunc(ih/2)*2, setsar=1/1, scale=w=1920:h=1080:force_original_aspect_ratio=1, pad=w=1920:h=1080:x=(ow-iw)/2:y=(oh-ih)/2:color=#000000" "output.mp4"
Please tweak the crf value depending on the picture quality.
Use
-vf scale=iw*sar:ih,setsar=1,pad='max(iw+mod(iw,2),2*trunc(ih*16/9/2))':'max(ih+mod(ih,2),2*trunc(iw*9/16/2))':-1:-1

FFMPEG: Youtube streaming quality and speed issues

I am trying to make a reliable stream from my Icecast/Shoutcast servers to Youtube live. The command that I use is:
ffmpeg -v verbose -framerate 30 -loop 1 -i /var/image.jpg -re -i http://127.0.0.1:4700/radio -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -b:v 2250k -maxrate 6000k -bufsize 6000k -c:a copy -ab 128k -s 1920x1080 -framerate 30 -g 60 -keyint_min 60 -f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/xxx
As you can see I am using recommended bitrate for Youtube, insert keyframes every 2 seconds and streaming at 30 frames per second.
The stream is working but after running for some time two thing are happening:
FFMPEG speed falls from 1x to something like 0.998x
Youtube starts complaining that video stream speed is slow, markes the quality as bad and sometimes video starts buffering.
Why is this happening? CPU load is normal, connectivity is ok (the stream is running on a 1Gg/s dedicated server).
Since in my example above I am streaming a single image as a logo of the stream I also tried to generate a short 30 seconds video with that image and broadcast that video instead of an image, but that did not help as well.
The command I used for conversion:
ffmpeg -framerate 30 -loop 1 -i /var/image.jpg -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -tune stillimage -b:v 2250k -minrate 2250k -maxrate 6000k -bufsize 6000k -framerate 30 -g 60 -keyint_min 60 -t 30 out4.mp4
And broadcast with
ffmpeg -stream_loop -1 -i out4.mp4 -re -i http://127.0.0.1:4700/radio -c:v copy -c:a copy -framerate 30 -g 60 -keyint_min 60 -f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/xxx
ffmpeg version is 4.1.1
Are you sure that your original stream is really keeping up with the wall-clock?
Depending on how it's encoded there are possibilities that it gets heavily skewed. This ultimately leads to buffer under (or overruns if it's too fast) and the player complaining/skipping.
Can you try and dump several hours worth of stream to a file and then stream that with FFmpeg? If that works, then it's a strong indication that your original stream timing (sample rate) is off.
Getting the sample rate right is why professional/expensive sound cards use high precision Quartz-Crystal controlled oscillators. Purely virtual processing (e.g. files get encoded into a stream) can easily get skewed, especially inside virtual machines. Also, cheap USB sound cards are often among the worst offenders in terms of frequency accuracy and stability.
FFmpeg might have an option to deal with too slow input. Keywords could be 'padding' or 'missing samples'.
Youtube's error saying "...buffer....." is not a buffer issue on your PC, but simply data you are sending to youtube is too small.
1)note that [-preset ultrafast] and [-preset fast] does not make big difference.
2) change your ffmpeg comannd for broadcast one. like, [-b:v 2250k] to [-b:v 15000k],and set fps to 12→[-r 12] option.
I's gonna be.
ffmpeg -stream_loop -1 -i out4.mp4 -re -i http://127.0.0.1:4700/radio -preset fast -r 12 -framerate 30 -g 60 -video_track_timescale 1000 -b:v 15000k -f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/xxx
I hope this will be good for you !!(^v^)Y

Fade out in ffmpeg when creating a video from a still image is wonky?

I'm creating a video that:
uses a still image as a source
has a text overlay
fades in and out
has a silent stereo audio track.
So far, I have this, and it (almost) works correctly:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "aevalsrc=0|0" -loop 1 -i turtle-2.jpg -c:v libx264 -t 5 -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -aspect 16:9 -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter:v drawtext="fontsize=130:fontfile=comic.ttf:text='hello world':x=(w-text_w)*.25:y=(h-text_h)*.75",fade=in:0:60,fade=out:90:60 -acodec aac turtle11.mp4
The only problem is that the fade out doesn't seem to be going to black, even tho this is a 150 frame video and I believe I am following the ffmpeg documentation correctly.
The resulting video is here:
http://video.blivenyc.com/vid-from-image/turtle11.mp4
Any thoughts?
Well, I'm not sure why but this works, even tho it appears to be equivalent:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "aevalsrc=0|0" -loop 1 -i turtle-2.jpg -c:v libx264 -t 5 -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -aspect 16:9 -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter:v drawtext="fontsize=130:fontfile=comic.ttf:text='hello world':x=(w-text_w)*.25:y=(h-text_h)*.75",fade=t=in:st=0:d=1,fade=t=out:st=4:d=1 -acodec aac turtle12.mp4
Basically, frame-based syntax:
fade=in:0:60,fade=out:90:60
gets substitued with time-based:
fade=t=in:st=0:d=1,fade=t=out:st=4:d=1
And somehow it works. Not sure why this is.
The video stream on which the fade filter operates is not 150 frames long. Input and output framerates are different here. The use of -r to set output rate happens after all filtering is done. At that stage, ffmpeg will drop or duplicate frames to obtain the output rate.
The input rate for an image or image sequence is 25, unless expressly set otherwise. In your command, since there is no override, it's 25. So fade out of 60 frames starting at frame 90, will end at frame 125 (5 seconds x 25). ffmpeg will duplicate 5 frames of each input second to get it to 30.
To get the desired result, use
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "aevalsrc=0|0" -loop 1 -framerate 30 -i turtle-2.jpg -c:v libx264 -t 5 -s 1920x1080 -aspect 16:9 -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter:v drawtext="fontsize=130:fontfile=comic.ttf:text='hello world':x=(w-text_w)*.25:y=(h-text_h)*.75",fade=in:0:60,fade=out:90:60 -acodec aac turtle11.mp4

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