I'm encoding some video using x264 to Main 3.2 for streaming playback on Apple devices.
The video contains quite a bit of text which ends up with rather non smooth edges. Which there probably is not much to do about in Main profile. However, at the first 1-2 seconds of the video the text looks quite a bit worse and then "pops" to better quality. Is there some setting I can use so that x264 uses a higher bitrate at the beginning of a clip as to avoid the "pop". I'm using settings along the following lines right now: ffmpeg -i in.mov -codec:v libx264 -crf 18 -maxrate 3M -bufsize 12M -preset faster -profile:v main -level 3.2 out.mov _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user