[x264-devel] CRF and VBV

[Georg Lippitsch]

Am 11.01.2012, 23:19 Uhr, schrieb Jason Garrett-Glaser  
<darkshikari at gmail.com>:


>> Yes, but I thought that ABR+VBV actually _is_ CBR.
>> I can't find something like X264_RC_CBR to set it directly.
>
> CBR is ABR with a VBV maxrate equal to the target bitrate.

Ah, thanks for clarification. Just was a bit confused because I read a  
former post from you where you said "you shouldn't use ABR ever".
For me, it looked as if VBV capped CRF was slightly superior to CBR. But  
probably I'm wrong ...


Regards,

Georg