[MEncoder-users] "High Quality" H.264 at low bit rates ;)

[Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)]

On Friday 22 February 2008 21:09, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
> > I get near DVD quality with a bitrate of 1100-1400... H.264 really shows
>
> Mh... Do you reduce the video resolution? (I don't.)

me neither, I just crop it and I hardly ever go above 1150 kbps, I've done 
encodes @ 950 kbps @ full resolution and they look really good

>
> > out http://h264enc.sourceforge.net which has 38 different presets - use
>
> Ok, thanks for the tip, I'm just doing that at the moment.
>
> > quality of your encodes in dark flat areas, then get the adaptive
> > quantization patch for x264 and patch & recompile x264
>
> Maybe that could help, my test material is gray scale video.
>
> The main problem I have is that originally detailed surfaces like skin in
> the human face lose all detail and get a blurred mess in the recoded
> videos.
>
> Greetings,
>
>   Gunter
>
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