Changing the video codec

[HamletEagle]

Hello!

I have one quick question for you, is it possible to change the video codec used when saving the effect to a video? Currently, it appears it is using the h264 codec, and I would like to use the png codec.

If there is no such feature, could you please point me to where in the code I can make this change?

Thank you!

[Tremeschin]

Yes it is possible!

It's kinda hard coded right now as I'm yet to think of FFmpeg presets and better code paths for this configuration

You'll need to edit the file at BrokenSource/Projects/ShaderFlow/ShaderFlow/Scene.py on this linked line, depthflow uses this other project/package as the base for all video and shaders stuff

You can just comment out the stuff you don't want and call .custom("arguments", "strings") for manual work

eg. for using h265

self.ffmpeg = (
    self.ffmpeg
    .custom("-c:v", "libx265")
    .custom("-crf", "28")
    .custom("-preset", "veryslow")
    (...)
    .custom("-t", self.duration)
)

[HamletEagle]

Thank you, it works!