[x264-devel] output at crf 20 larger than source??

[Loren Merritt]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, sean darcy wrote:

> mplayer seems to like only crf:
>
>  mplayer -nosound -benchmark -vo yuv4mpeg:file=>(x264 --demuxer y4m
> --bitrate 3000  --preset veryslow --tune film --output act1a-3000.264
> ) Act1a-2011.08.20_20-27-08.m2t
> ................
> Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [yuv4mpeg] 1440x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
>
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 13 in module: decode_video
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 13 in module: flip_page

Signal 13 is SIGPIPE. The actual error (which you didn't paste) was
"x264 [error]: No input file. Run x264 --help for a list of options."

That has nothing to do with ratecontrol, it just means that you never
told x264 to read from stdin.

--Loren Merritt