[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg and x264

[Robert Krüger]

On Apr 30, 2011, at 17:39 , Dave Pope wrote:

> Thanks!  The change makes perfect sense, I just had to dig around for while before figuring it out.  Do you know if there's a patch in the works to make 'ffmpeg  --help' report something about these?  It seems like it might require building some "handshaking" between them that might not already exist in general form.
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> On Apr 29, 2011, at 17:37 , Dave Pope wrote:
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>> Yeah, I hit this one too.  Use "-preset" and "-profile" switches instead
>> of -vpre.  "-preset fast -profile baseline" works OK for me.  Annoying
>> that it's not reflected in the --help output; I don't see a way to list
>> the available values yet either.
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> Check x264 docs. As far as I understood the purpose of the change was not to duplicate efforts from the x264 project and that is documented quite well.
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> try x264 --fullhelp
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No, I'm not aware of anything like that. 

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