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| - | ====== x264 ====== | + | ====== x264 / AVC ====== |
| * [[Handbrake]] | * [[Handbrake]] | ||
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| * [[http://dev.beandog.org/x264_preset_reference.html|x264 preset reference]] | * [[http://dev.beandog.org/x264_preset_reference.html|x264 preset reference]] | ||
| * [[http://www.x264bluray.com/|Authoring a professional Blu-ray Disc with x264]] | * [[http://www.x264bluray.com/|Authoring a professional Blu-ray Disc with x264]] | ||
| - | * [[http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings|x264 Settings]] | ||
| * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC|Wikipedia: H264]] | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC|Wikipedia: H264]] | ||
| - | * [[http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/understanding-h264-encoding-parameters---profiles-and-levels.html|Understanding H.264 Encoding Parameters - Profiles and Levels]] | ||
| * [[http://mmmash.blogspot.com/2013/03/x264-motion-estimation-method-comparison.html|X264 - Motion Estimation Method- Comparison]] - I like this one. :) | * [[http://mmmash.blogspot.com/2013/03/x264-motion-estimation-method-comparison.html|X264 - Motion Estimation Method- Comparison]] - I like this one. :) | ||
| * [[http://birds-are-nice.me/publications/extremex264_5.shtml|Extreme x264 encoding]] | * [[http://birds-are-nice.me/publications/extremex264_5.shtml|Extreme x264 encoding]] | ||
| + | * [[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MeGUI/x264_Settings|MeGUI/x264 Settings]] - the best place to get a description of each setting | ||
| - | === h264 levels === | + | When encoding, if you want to cover all your bases, there are two H.264 settings to use, and two x264 encoding arguments to pass: |
| - | DVDs max out at high 3.1. You don't need 3.2 on DVDs because that is the first level that accepts 720p. | + | * H.264 profile: high |
| + | * H.264 level: 4.1 | ||
| + | * x264 preset: medium | ||
| + | * x264 CRF: 23 | ||
| - | Blu-ray at high 4.1. You can go higher if you want, it's your preference. :) | + | Optionally, you can set the x264 tuning as well. Best choices are film, animation, and grain. |
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| + | Don't change any other settings than those. If you do, you're going down the rabbit hole. | ||
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| + | === H.264 levels === | ||
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| + | DVDs max out at high 3.1. You don't need 3.2 on DVDs because that is the first level that accepts 720p. | ||
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| + | Blu-ray at high 4.1. You can go higher if you want, it's your preference. :) | ||
| The levels (baseline, main, high) are used to determine which hardware you want to target, and influences what quality you can expect and what encoding features will be used. Blu-ray uses high profile. | The levels (baseline, main, high) are used to determine which hardware you want to target, and influences what quality you can expect and what encoding features will be used. Blu-ray uses high profile. | ||
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| === mtune === | === mtune === | ||
| - | Keep it simple (for DVDs): use ''film'' or ''animation''. For **old** movies or sources that have artifacts already, use ''grain'' or you risk making it even worse. | + | Keep it simple (for DVDs): use ''film'' or ''animation''. For **old** movies or sources that have artifacts already, use ''grain'' or you risk making it even worse. |
| === Choosing an x264 preset === | === Choosing an x264 preset === | ||
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| Short answer: just use medium, and tweak settings somewhere else. | Short answer: just use medium, and tweak settings somewhere else. | ||
| - | Choose the preset that you can stand waiting for Default is 23. :) | + | === CRF === |
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| + | Changing the CRF level will determine the level of video quality for your encodes. The default is 23. If you think it's not good enough quality, bump it down by one or two, until you find what you like. | ||
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| + | "The range of the quantizer scale is 0-51: where 0 is lossless, 23 is default, and 51 is worst possible. A lower value is a higher quality and a subjectively sane range is 18-28. Consider 18 to be visually lossless or nearly so: it should look the same or nearly the same as the input but it isn't technically lossless. The range is exponential, so increasing the CRF value +6 is roughly half the bitrate while -6 is roughly twice the bitrate. General usage is to choose the highest CRF value that still provides an acceptable quality. If the output looks good, then try a higher value and if it looks bad then choose a lower value" | ||
| === Two-pass encoding === | === Two-pass encoding === | ||
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| * [[http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/102|Encoding animation]] - good read for overview of challenges. | * [[http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/102|Encoding animation]] - good read for overview of challenges. | ||
| - | "All of this combines to make animation at first glance deceptively easy–but in reality quite difficult–to encode." So true! | + | "All of this combines to make animation at first glance deceptively easy–but in reality quite difficult–to encode." So true! |
| His tests on x264 | His tests on x264 | ||
