[FFmpeg-user] 1920x1080p24 AVC to HEVC compression options?

[Lou Logan]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, at 10:24 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
>
> However, it uses the x264 coder with compression that's too high 
> resulting in 'clay-face' or 
> 'plastic-face'. What I'd prefer is less compression and the x265 coder.
> 
> I can probably specify x265 with a '-c:v libx265' directive, but I 
> haven't found a way to specify 
> less compression. I look here: 
> https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-codecs.html#libx265 but I don't see any 
> actual documentation...
> 
> ...any suggestions what Options and values I should use?

Use a lower -crf value:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265