The fastest way to encode image+audio for Youtube from command line?

Posted by Pavel Vlasov on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Pavel Vlasov
Published on 2012-07-04T22:55:53Z Indexed on 2012/07/05 3:18 UTC
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I have an mp3 and image and I want to make a simple clip to upload onto Youtube. Is there a fast solution? If video formats are so bad designed, then maybe it is possible to use a prerendered video-only clip?

This works good except it takes as much time as the audio lasts:

ffmpeg -loop_input -r ntsc -i "%IMAGE%" -i "%AUDIO%" -r 1 -acodec copy -shortest -re -force_fps "%VIDEO%"

This takes a second but results in a black screen video that is successfully played by a desktop video player but not acceptable by Youtube:

ffmpeg -i "%IMAGE%" -i "%AUDIO%" -acodec copy "%VIDEO%"

Windows 7. Preserving audio quality is preferred over video quality.

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