some x264 notes

guides

https://gist.github.com/steven2358/ba153c642fe2bb1e47485962df07c730 FFmpeg cheat sheet

https://sometimes-archives-things.github.io/archived-things/ Encoding Guides (Archived)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrxjr5xv4q27ipe/x264-guide.pdf A Guide to x264, Detail Loss & Desperation (2016)

reference

mkvmerge –language 1:eng foo.mp4 –language 0:eng foo.srt -o bar.mkv

https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/16840/ffmpeg-explicitly-tag-h-264-as-bt-601-rather-than-leaving-unspecified ffmpeg: explicitly tag h.264 as bt.601, rather than leaving unspecified?

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172289 Proper IVTC using exclusively ffmpeg

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/369199-Anyone-try-x264-s-new-AQ-mode Anyone try x264’s new AQ mode?

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=170599 How to use aq-mod 3&4?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Levels

older, possibly out of date reference

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MeGUI/x264_Settings https://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=tutorial:h.264 https://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/x264-ffmpeg-mapping

http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/h264-profiles-and-levels/

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/399321-How-to-download-m3u8-segmented-subtitles

https://bscable.info/from-vhs-to-h-264-video-format/