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

[sean darcy]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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
>

I must have been hit with the careless/blind stick.

sean