[MEncoder-users] the options for the best x264 encoding with crf

[Goga777]

> > in mencoder official documentation there's some settings for different options, for example for the
> > best quality the documentation recommend to use the following options (I will keep in the mind crf
> > method,  not 2pass)
> >
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-x264.html
> 
> Those docs are *very* outdated so you shouldn't rely on them

thanks, didn't know about that 

> > Very high quality
> > subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b
> 
> You can up subq to 9 if you want and also add trellis=2. For motion
> estination use umh, as esa/tesa are way slower and you won't notice
> the diff between them & umh. b_pyramid needs a parameter (choose
> between normal, strict and none -- strict is only for blu-ray
> compatibility so use normal)
> 
> if you want, just use in mencoder this option: preset=veryslow
> (requires a very recent mplayer svn checkout). It'll directly use the
> veryslow preset of the libx264 library. 

which fps do you have during encoding with preset=veryslow and for which video ?

With my Pentium 4 3GHz for 576i video with preset=slow I have 3 fps during encoding with 
vf=yadif=0,hqdn3d=2:1:2 


Goga