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Compare a movie via VMAF to a lot of different encoding settings
from subprocess import run, PIPE, STDOUT
from pathlib import Path
from datetime import datetime
import os
movie_file = "video_compare/glass.mp4"
file_name = "glass"
output_directory = "video_compare/ffmpeg"
for crf in ["16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24", "25", "26", "27", "28"]:
for preset in ["ultrafast", "superfast", "veryfast", "faster", "fast", "medium", "slow", "slower", "veryslow"]:
print(f"{datetime.now().isoformat()} - Running crf {crf} for preset {preset}")
a = run(
f'ffmpeg.exe -y -i "{movie_file}" -t 11 -map 0:0 -c:v libx265 -x265-params hdr-opt=1:repeat-headers=1:colorprim=bt2020:transfer=smpte2084:colormatrix=bt2020nc::master-display="G(13250,34500)B(7500,3000)R(34000,16000)WP(0,0)L(40000000,50)" -crf {crf} -preset {preset} "{output_directory}/{file_name}_{crf}_{preset}.mkv"',
shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, cwd=os.getcwd())
Path(f"{output_directory}/glass_{crf}_{preset}.log").write_bytes(a.stdout)
print(f"{datetime.now().isoformat()} - Encoded done with crf {crf} for preset {preset}")
cmd2 = (f'ffmpeg.exe -y '
f'-i "{output_directory}/{file_name}_{crf}_{preset}.mkv" '
f'-i "{movie_file}" -t 10 -lavfi libvmaf="model_path=vmaf_4k_v0.6.1.pkl:log_path={output_directory}/{file_name}_{crf}_{preset}_details.txt;[0:v][1:v]ssim=1" -report -f null -\n')
b = run(cmd2, shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, cwd="C:\\Users\\Chris")
Path(f"{output_directory}/{file_name}_{crf}_{preset}.score.log").write_bytes(b.stdout)
print(f"{datetime.now().isoformat()} - Done with crf {crf} for preset {preset}")
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