Digital signage for a fast-food menu board over coax. H.264 at 480p/1 Mbps because the BrightSign player has a 2 Mbps total bandwidth limit, MPEG-TS for the multicast UDP delivery, AAC for the background music track.
| Video Codec | H.264 |
| Bitrate | 1M |
| Resolution | 480p |
| Audio | AAC |
| Container | TS |
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -b:v 1M -vf scale=-2:480 -c:a aac -b:a 64k -f mpegts output.tsDigital signage is a surprisingly large market ($30B+). Most menu boards run BrightSign or similar ARM-based players that only decode H.264 Baseline profile. Sending H.265 to these devices results in a black screen with no error message.
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