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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi<div><br></div><div>I have a question about the rate control settings in x264. What is the implication of using the following settings?</div><div><br></div><div>1st pass:</div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">vbv-bufsize=10000 bitrate=3400 vbv-maxrate=3800 ratetol=0.1 -pass 1</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">2nd pass:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">everything same as above with -pass 2</span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Is this going to be be CBR/VBR/ABR? Will if target a fixed file size or bitrate or both?</span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Thanks I am just trying to get all the different parameters sorted out.</span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Thanks,</span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 15px;">-Purvin</span></font></div> </div></body>
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