On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:13 +0100, Robert Nagy wrote:
> 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
What resolution are you operating at? In other words, please
Haven't tried two-pass encode. But I can't quite use 2 pass encoding in my
usage scenario since I'm capturing live.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Werner Robitza
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Robert Nagy wrote:
>
> > However, at the first 1-2 seconds of the video the text looks qu
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Robert Nagy wrote:
> 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 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 qu
