<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> (Also, that&#39;s a very good question.)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> N95 at a bare minimum, but normally a P100 for that kind of thing.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sushee" class="u-url mention">@<span>sushee</span></a></span> There&#39;s 3 hard things in computing. And none of them matter because configuration management takes all the effort :)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> yeah but idk if it was the original -b or an average</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> (out of curiosity, what does &quot;fully masked&quot; mean for you?)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> i think the kb/s number corresponds to the -b value?</p>

<p>slapping the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unboxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unboxing</span></a> hashtag onto this short is certainly communicating something <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/htXtigWYXPA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/htXtigWYXPA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p>With ffmpeg there appear to be various ways to specify quality (-b, -vb, -crf) when encoding video. Is there a way to get a copy of ffmpeg on disk to tell me what its current default quality level/specification method for -vcodec libx264 is? (Or even better, to look at an existing mp4 on disk and tell me what its quality level is in terms of ffmpeg command line flags? ffmpeg -i gives me a kb/s number but I don&#39;t know what to do with that.)</p>

<p>I see very *very* few shows due to the severe COVID risk of attending them even fully masked, so it&#39;s all the more important to me that I actually know about the ones I really care about.</p>