[MEncoder-users] x264 codec and bitrates

[Franco Pellegrini]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> Ouch, that is badly outdated.
> You should be using
> preset=...
> and
> crf=...
> options, the first to set the encoding quality, the second to choose
> the encode quality (18 is often a recommended starting point) - that
> is assuming you want to target a certain quality and do not care much
> about bitrate in principle.
> If you don't know much about the subject you should not be using any
> option other than preset, crf and under certain circumstances bitrate,
> tune and profile.

Thank you Reimar, ok, i will be using the "slow" preset and see what happens...

Regards !
Franco