>Yes, I also meant subjective viewing quality (as that was how I
>understood it to be conveyed to me). And I completely agree that the
>CRF is being oversold too. I am continuing to do the 2-pass method.
>Now, I've even read about there being a 3-pass method, but it seems
>somewhat more complicated. Do you know anything about 3-pass mode with
>x264 as the encoding backend?
3-pass (or N-pass, with N >= 3) is essentially just repeating the first
analysis pass over and over, using the results of the previous pass to
improve the output quality further. Transcode supports this with x264,
using "-R 3,logfile" on the command line; you'd do something like:
transcode -R 1,logfile [other options]
transcode -R 3,logfile [other options]
... [repeat previous line as often as desired]
transcode -R 2,logfile [other options]
--Andrew Church
achu...@achurch.org
http://achurch.org/
