[x264-devel] recommended settings for screencapture encoding?

[Maarten de Boer]

Hi Loren,

Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Are you sure you want to use h264? There are formats designed for screen 
> capture, which work much better within their domain than a general purpose 
> video codec does. e.g. ZMBV may be lossless at bitrates where h264 looks 
> merely ok. (But screen capture codecs are all(?) lossless only, so if you 
> need to reduce bitrate below what they give, h264 may become useful 
> again.)

Yes, bitrate, but also availability, are reasons i'd like to use h264. Thanks
for the suggestion though!

maarten