[FFmpeg-devel] Add on-the-fly bitrate adjustment for encoding

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 10:16, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 09:24:08 -0700, Adrian Cable wrote:
> > This is an addition to ffmpeg.c which enables on-the-fly encoder (e.g.
> H.264) bitrate adjustment using ffmpeg interactive mode. For example,
> specify “-b:v 299k -bufsize 299k” on the command line to start encoding at
> 299kbit/sec, then to adjust the encoder bitrate to 200kbit/sec during
> encoding, type
>

I really think this is a bad idea. You should be using the API for this.
Soon we will have every feature reconfigurable from the CLI, it will be
unmaintainable.

Kieran