[MEncoder-users] H.264 compression

[James Hastings-Trew]

Diogo Franco wrote:
> x264 ratecontrol on FFmpeg (libavcodec) is broken for some time now, for
> some weird reason it always use the maximum quantizer. You have to use
> x264 directly with mencoder.
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I use bitrate based rate control with x264 and it is usually right on 
the money - very predictable on a 2 pass encode. I'm guessing that part 
isn't broken.