[x264-devel] recommended settings for screencapture encoding?

[Tonda Míšek]

Hi,
my personal experience is that *lossless* h264 good for  screen 
captures, it is much better then lossy h264.

TonyMi

Maarten de Boer wrote:
> 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
>
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