Mediainfo video.mkv | grep Encoding | cut -d ':' -f 2- | tr '/' ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2. Here's one way to export the info on command line: These are the encoding settings as reported byįor each preset, using the same source material from x264 - Motion Estimation Method - Comparison.What the other presets are compared against. $ x264 -preset ultrafast -threads 1 -o x264_preset_ultrafast.mkvĬomments and corrections are welcome. # encode using ultrafast preset, using one CPU thread to raw h.264 $ ffmpeg -i nyan-cat-jazz.mkv -t 1 video.y4m # convert one second of video from MP4 to raw video (YUV4MPEG2) Jazz, which I downloaded using youtube-dl,Ĭonverted to YUV4MPEG2 using ffmpeg, then used x264Įncoder to encode the raw video into a raw h.264Ĭontainer. You can duplicate my results if you like. X264 doesn't write *all* of the encoding settings (that IĬan see, partitions is an example), this may not To read the x264 encoding options from the video. Sometimes I want to see all the flags that a preset is X264 is well documented, and I like using it, but Beandog's x264 preset reference /dev/beandog Encoding presets for x264

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