Hi! Maybe I have asome bad comprehension so please excuse my lack of knowledge if it appears that the problem comes from it. I try to do a conversion of a movie in Quicktime PNG/alac codec using transcode 1.1.2 to a Quicktime h264/AAC one using the mov export module with the x264 and faac options. libx264 is a git version a less than a month old. The goal is to have near perfect quality, whatever the size of the output file. It works perfectly well but whatever the bitrate settings I provide ("-w 10000", "-w 25000 --video_max_bitrate 25000", etc.), it seems stuck to a 8000 output and yields a file with the exact same amount of octets, even using one path or two. I use the following settings in my x264.cfg file, which should be max quality according to a documenbt on the mplayer site providing info on encoding x264, document I cannot find anymore and that's too bad :
subq = 6 analyse = all 8x8dct me = 2 frameref = 5 bframes = 4 b_pyramid weight_b chroma_me qcomp = 1.0 level_idc = 41 threads = 4 direct_pred = 3 threads = 4 The thing is : there are still some part of the film where I see some blockiness, some moving block where the image should be still. I would have expected, a bit like the JPEG image file, to see the blockiness disappear when you ask for max quality. I guess that if the quality (and even the number of bytes of the output) doesn't change after I increase the bitrate, it must be because it's not possible with my current settings to get any better. Has anyone a suggestion that could improve my output? Best regards, Richard Van Den Boom