Re: [FFmpeg-user] X264 and Smooth Text

2015-01-19 Thread Robert Nagy
Haven't tried two-pass encode. But I can't quite use 2 pass encoding in my usage scenario since I'm capturing live. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Werner Robitza werner.robi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Robert Nagy rona...@gmail.com wrote: However, at the first 1-2

Re: [FFmpeg-user] X264 and Smooth Text

2015-01-19 Thread Werner Robitza
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Robert Nagy rona...@gmail.com wrote: However, at the first 1-2 seconds of the video the text looks quite a bit worse and then pops to better quality. Is there some setting I can use so that x264 uses a higher bitrate at the beginning of a clip as to avoid the

[FFmpeg-user] X264 and Smooth Text

2015-01-18 Thread Robert Nagy
I'm encoding some video using x264 to Main 3.2 for streaming playback on Apple devices. The video contains quite a bit of text which ends up with rather non smooth edges. Which there probably is not much to do about in Main profile. However, at the first 1-2 seconds of the video the text looks