ffmpeg how to control fps tbr tbn tbc parameters

Question

RT, i have two avi file,

A.avi: fps 30 tbr 30 tbn 30 tbc 30.
B.avi: fps 2 tbr 2 tbn 2 tbc 2.

the problem is how to set the same value 30 on B.avi?

Solution 1

You can re-encode with a specified frame rate:

ffmpeg -i B.avi -codec:v mpeg4 -r 30 -qscale:v 2 -codec:a copy C.avi

What these options mean:

• -codec:v mpeg4 - Use the encoder called mpeg4 for MPEG-4 Part 2 video.
• -r 30 - Set output frame rate as 30.
• -qscale:v 2 - Set video output quality using a constant quantization parameter. Recommended range is 2-5 for mpeg4.
• -codec:a copy - Copy the audio from input to output to avoid re-encoding.

Note that ffmpeg will simply duplicate frames to achieve your desired output frame rate. If instead you were reducing your frame rate ffmpeg would drop frames.

Solution 2

You can change timebase or tbn tbc by -video_track_timescale, e. g. to change the tbn and tbc to 30:

ffmpeg -i 1.avi -c:v copy -video_track_timescale 30 1.avi

Solution 3

if you want more presice control, not only control fps. but also tbr, tbn, tbc. assume you understand what mean of it. tbc,tbn,tbr

check

ffmpeg -x264opts timebase=???

or

ffmpeg -time_base

or use format factory, default it give you same tbr, tbn, tbc.

Comments

[TheKarateKid]

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -time_base 1/30 -c:a copy -c:v copy output.mp4 Is what I used. The time_base parameter successfully changed the 'tbn' to match on both videos without re-encoding. You may need to apply additional parameters if other settings need to be uniform before joining the videos.

[Hermann]

This was helpful for me. I have a video I want to prepend with some seconds of black. The concatenated video was played much slower, the effective frame-rate only a quarter of the desired frame-rate. I was able to use ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=size=1920x1080:rate=60:color=black -t 10 -video_track_timescale 60k black.mp4 to generate a video with a tbn matching the actual video. The tbc does not seem to be important in this context.