[x264-devel] Faster real-time encoding

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

2008/7/23 Arindam Biswas <send2ari at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to encode a 1024x768 25 fps video in realtime. I am running the
> encoder on
> Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU 1.18 GHz  cpu.  The command-line I am using is
>
> x264.exe -b 0 -I 1 -B 1000 --no-psnr --no-ssim --no-cabac -o output.h264
> input.y4m [1024x768]
>
> But I am getting only 8 fps at output.

1.  Use --threads auto.
2.  1.18Ghz?  It sounds like your CPU is throttling or something.
3.  Try lowering --subme.

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