Table of Contents
tails.beandog.org
- Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) - doesn't apply to me because he's using libx264, but I like his explanation of comparing quality options in ffmpeg
- CRF Guide (Constant Rate Factor in x264, x265 and libvpx) - same guy, just more comparison
- https://slhck.info/video/2017/02/24/vbr-settings.html - details on setting VBR
- Video Encoding Settings for H.264 Excellence - doesn't really apply because they use libx264, but it's a great reference for how things work
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI - AMD hardware encoding
- HandBrake git - commit to ffmpeg-8.0.1 has libdvdnav and libdvdread 7.0 as well
qmin and qmax
qmax is the highest number you are willing to encode for, where the higher the number, the worse the peak quality
qmin is the lowest number, which will max out good quality level at.
So, if you want somewhere between 15 and 22 cq, you would use -qmin 15 -qmax 26
Think of min and max as that, the numbers, not
