On 10/21/06, Loren Merritt <lorenm@u.washington.edu> wrote:
"...does not support MPEG-4 videos with a sample aspect ratio other than 1." Your statement meant instead that the whole video must be square.
Fixed. As you may have guessed from the first few drafts, I am relatively new to this field, and self-taught. Which means I know how to fix the problem, but not necessarily how to explain it.
You don't actually need to know that. "-vf scale=-10:-1" will pick the right width for the current height, rounded to a multiple of 16 for optimal compression.
Wow, that's amazing. Now that you say it, I can see how the man page sort of explains that, but I have never seen that technique in any tutorial or discussion. Incorporated everywhere.
You don't have to remove turbo, it automatically disables itself on the 2nd pass.
Fixed.
"Real multithreaded support" as opposed to what, fake multithread? Imo, --enable-pthreads doesn't need to be mentioned anymore, since x264 has had autodetection for such libraries for a long time. Yes, it's
Removed. Thanks for all the feedback. Draft 3 is attached. -- Cheers, -Mark