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How to specify audio and video bitrate

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Mar 15, 2026263390 views
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Problem

I have a mov file with the following media information: And I would like to use FFmpeg to convert that MOV file to an AVI file. I know i can specify audio and video bit rate (from this article): But for my case, if I want to keep the original quality, what should be my audio and video bit rate?

Error Output

Stream 0
Type: Video
Codec: H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)avc1
Language: English
Resolution: 1280x720
Frame rate: 24

Stream 1
Type: Audio
Codec: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)
Language: English
Channels: Stereo
Sample rate: 44100HZ

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In order to specify the target bitrate for video and audio, use the and options, respectively. You can use abbreviations like for kBit/s and for MBit/s. For example: But before you just run it like this, note the following: This is a simple one-pass encode that tries to reach the specified bitrate at the end. This will likely lead to wrong bitrate estimations for the video part — and the final file size may be off. The output quality might be bad. It's recommended to use a two-pass encoding mod…

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