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tutorials/animation/playing_videos.rst

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Playback limitations
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There are several limitations with the current implementation of video playback in Godot:
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There are some limitations with the current implementation of video playback in Godot:
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- Changing playback speed is not supported. VideoStreamPlayer also won't follow
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:ref:`Engine.time_scale<class_Engine_property_time_scale>`.
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- Streaming a video from a URL is not supported.
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- Only mono and stereo audio output is supported. Videos with 4, 5.1 and 7.1
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audio channels are supported but down-mixed to stereo.
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`FFmpeg <https://ffmpeg.org/>`__ (CLI) is a popular open source tool
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for this purpose. FFmpeg has a steep learning curve, but it's powerful tool.
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for this purpose. FFmpeg has a steep learning curve, but it's a powerful tool.
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Here are example FFmpeg commands to convert an MP4 video to Ogg Theora. Since
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FFmpeg supports a lot of input formats, you should be able to use the commands
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All FFmpeg releases before Feb 20th, 2025 could produce bad video streams
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due to a couple of bugs. It's highly recommended to use one of the latest
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static daily builds, or build FFmpeg from their master branch where they're
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already fixed.
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Current official FFmpeg releases have some bugs in their Ogg/Theora
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multiplexer. It's highly recommended to use one of the latest static daily
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builds, or build from their master branch where they are already fixed.
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Balancing quality and file size
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The **GOP (Group of Pictures) size** (``-g:v``) is the max interval between
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keyframes. Increasing this value can improve compression with almost no impact
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on quality. The valid range goes from ``0`` to ``2,147,483,648``, although
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compression benefits will fade away and even be reversed as the GOP size
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increases. The default size (``12``) is too low for most types of content, it's
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therefore recommended to test higher GOP sizes before reducing video quality.
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on quality. The default size (``12``) is too low for most types of content,
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it's therefore recommended using higher GOP values before reducing video
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quality. Compression benefits will fade away as the GOP size increases though.
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Values between ``64`` and ``512`` usually give the best compression.
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