MediaCoder

If that 8 year old PC had a 7 yead old Nvidia Geforce 6 series (2004 or newer) GFX card, then you would have h.264 hardware decoding. CUDA encoding support starting with Geforce 8 series (2006/2007) With ATI/AMD Radeons, the card would have to be R600 (Radeon HD 2x00 series) or newer (2006/2007) Bot...

Changing the fps requires no re-encoding, use eg. ffmpeg or Restream to change the fps only.
As said, audio can be trickier.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=147179
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/6671 ... e-encoding

What format does you camera shoot video in ?

If it's one of those old ones doing it in M-JPEG, then there is a way to do it absolutely losslessly.

Anything else, and it's better to rotate it during playback;
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=10282

Whatever program you're using that adds that pin to the top right - disable that.

To me, looks like a decoder error - could be the decoder feeding the video for x264 to encode, or the decoder you use to playback the encoded x264 video.
Does the error show up if you play your encode with VLC ?
Disable weightp

Might start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... er_formats
The problem comes from the fact that not all versions of all the different encoders or muxers
are able to successfully use all the possible different combinations.

mixer wrote:What I would do is use something like VLC for playback and then record at the same time using a different application

I'd use VLC for both - have VLC dump the audio as it is or transcode it, while playing it - although it may be a lot faster if you don't play it while encoding it.

If the source video had Bitrate : 802 Kbps and audio Bitrate : 116 Kbps, how would you expect an encode with settings video bitrate 1000 and audio bitrate100 to be smaller than the source ? Since you downloaded the file from youtube, why didn't you download the 360p mp4 version they already provide ...

Also, why would you even want to convert the file, you're hardly making any changes, so why aren't you just re-muxing the the video and audio streams from the flv into mp4 container ?

Unless encoding for blu-ray (or other forms of hardware compatibility, eg. ipod or xbox), there is no point in NOT using --b-frames 16 when using --b-adapt 1. With --b-adapt 2 there's rarely* much point in using more than 4 to 6 frames except when encoding cartoon/anime. * so read the x264 log after...