Are you sure that the frame rate is constant? Were you told that the content is progressive and not interlaced? Were you given information about keyframe distance or what color space the video is in? Can you trust that any of that is accurate? I can’t and you shouldn’t. I have a basic rule when encoding content and that is to never trust the input. Streaming media, at it’s core, requires three basic things.Ģ) An even keyframe distance which is also known as a Group of Pictures or GOP.Ĥ) Finding a better bitrate for your content.ħ) Proper encoding for your target audiences. In this post I hope to help shed some light on what does and does not work. I’ve been in the streaming media industry since 2008 and have seen a lot of misinformation regarding both FFmpeg and libx264.