On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Scott C. Frase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:23 -0500, Scott C. Frase wrote: > > Hi guys, > > H.264 renders don't seem to be working right for my Fedora 7 x86-64 bit > > system. Getting a "x264 [error]: no ratecontrol method specified" > > error. Cinelerra compiled from source, version 1036. > > > > Anyone seen this? > > > > These are my libraries: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep x264 > > x264-0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7 > > x264-devel-0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7 > > > > > > x264 [error]: no ratecontrol method specified > > 1) I found the reason for this error > 2) I have a new, different error. > > 1) > The above error was related to outdated or an otherwise bad > x264/x264-devel packages from FreshRPMs. Once I removed the FreshRPM > repositories and installed Livna's: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20080206]# yum install x264* --disablerepo=freshrpms > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up Install Process > Parsing package install arguments > Resolving Dependencies --> > Running transaction check > ---> Package x264.x86_64 0:0-0.8.20061028.lvn7 set to be updated > ---> Package x264-devel.x86_64 0:0-0.8.20061028.lvn7 set to be updated > > Dependencies Resolved > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Installing: > x264 x86_64 0-0.8.20061028.lvn7 livna 227 k > x264-devel x86_64 0-0.8.20061028.lvn7 livna 15 k > > > I am now able to use ffmpeg or avidemux to render to h264 format. Great! The real reason for the rate control error is that the newer version of the x264 library now expects a value for rate control. With the older version, if none was given x264 would take a default (cqp=26). Therefore it is actually a bug in cinelerra, which does not provide a value for the rate control. >From the x264 changelog: *Changes from rev. 654 to rev. 655* - require a ratecontrol method to be specified, it no longer defaults to cqp=26. Paul
