[x264-devel] Can I use x264 to encode 4K and 8K videos?

Henrik Gramner henrik at gramner.com
Wed Nov 9 12:56:21 UTC 2022


On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 2:47 PM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
<tdtemccnp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I use x264 to encode 4K and 8K videos?

Yes, but keep in mind that H.264 (regardless of which specific encoder
is used) doesn't scale well past 1080p, so expect having to use high
bit rates to achieve reasonable quality.


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