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Puzzle #3 · Standard · 5 params

H.264 · Bitrate 5M · 1080p · E-AC-3 · TS

The scenario

Live broadcast contribution feed. H.264 for real-time encoding, CBR 5M for consistent bandwidth on dedicated links, E-AC-3 for surround sound, MPEG-TS for stream resilience (packet loss recovery). Classic broadcast-to-IP bridge.

The answer

Video CodecH.264
Bitrate5M
Resolution1080p
AudioE-AC-3
ContainerTS

The command

ffmpeg -i input.mxf -c:v libx264 -b:v 5M -c:a eac3 -b:a 384k -f mpegts output.ts

Why

MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) adds ~5% overhead compared to MP4, but each 188-byte packet is self-contained. If a packet is lost, only that packet is affected — unlike MP4 where corruption can break the entire file.

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