[x264-devel] CRF and VBV

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Georg Lippitsch <georg at linteum.at> wrote:
> Am 11.01.2012, 00:17 Uhr, schrieb Jason Garrett-Glaser <jason at x264.com>:
>
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>> VBV simply places a cap on the bitrate that results from CRF.  It does
>> what you think it does.
>>
>> It sounds like what you want is CBR, though.
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>
> I want the highest possible quality for a given maximum bitrate (to stream
> over network). Booth, ABR+VBV and CRF+VBV do what I want concerning bitrate.
> Some posts suggested not to use ABR, so CRF+VBV seems the right thing. But I
> still do not understand how to set a reasonable CRF if only maximum bitrate
> is given.

Did you read what I said?  I suggested you use CBR.

Jason