Got some YUV420 1920x1080 60FPS videos i want to encode with MPEG2 with different quality levels. According to stackoverflow: ffmpeg conversion to mpeg2video I could do it with
ffmpeg -i input -codec:v mpeg2video -qscale:v 10 output.mpg
The qscale parameter has a linear scale 2-31 and 31 is the lowest quality but it's not as bad as I would expect the lowest quality MPEG2 video to look like.
Also tried these:
-vcodec mpeg2video -maxrate 4000k
-vcodec mpeg2video -qmin 69 -qmax 69
maxrate gets ignored and i get the message that it is too low and qmin 69 quality is still higher than i want it to be.
Does anyone know how to achieve a really low quality MPEG2 video with ffmpeg or any other MPEG2 codec i could use to do this? Thanks