# Ffmpeg poor quality on conversion

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ffmpeg-poor-quality-on-conversion/222167>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 11, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ffmpeg-poor-quality-on-conversion/222167 "2007-04-11T11:26:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![paul\_ferrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@paul\_ferrie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paul_ferrie)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ffmpeg-poor-quality-on-conversion/222167/1 "2007-04-11T11:26:44Z")

</div>

Hi guys,  
Not sure if this is the right area or even if anyone knows how to use ffmpeg on here but here goes anyway.

I am having a problem with ffmpeg converting my quicktime movies to flv.  
The movie converts fine but the quality is really poor.  
What can i do to make sure that the quality is that of the input movie?

```auto

toexec = "D:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i D:\wwwroot\media\mentorMedia\	emp_".$upID."\\".$movieName." -r 15 -ar 22050 D:\wwwroot\media\mentorMedia\	emp_".$upID."\\".$newMovie;
        $doWhat = "Convert ".$movieName." to ".$newMovie;

```

I read in the docs that ffmpeg should ouput to as close a quality to the input file but that dosnt seem to be the case with my converted video file.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks  
Paul