Encoding for fastest decoding with ffmpeg
ffmpeg, libx264
Solution
There is `--tune fastdecode` in x264 (or `-tune fastdecode` if using ffmpeg) if you want optimize for decoding speed at the cost of quality/compression efficiency. In libx264 tune setting is available as one of the params for x264_param_default_preset.
Problem
Encoding with ffmpeg and libx264, are there presets or flags that will optimize decoding speed? Right now it seems that videos transcoded with similar file sizes are decoded at very different speeds using Qtkit, and I was wondering whether there are options for encoding such that the decoding speed will be maximal.