[x264-devel] how to improve compression efficiency of x264 encoder

Henrik Gramner henrik at gramner.com
Wed May 11 17:03:13 CEST 2016


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:44 PM, chen <chenm003 at 163.com> wrote:
> Are you see below comment in there: "In a recent subjective test that
> included video clips distributed across the motion-complexity spectrum,
> IQ264x achieved a median gain of 26.5% when compared to the reference x264
> encoder."

"reference x264 encoder" is an odd statement, are you sure they're not
referring to the reference H.264 encoder, e.g. JM? In that case only
getting a 20-ish% improvement is actually quite bad.


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