Yet another blog for JBKempf - Tag - x264

H264 encoding: "some boring x264 stuff that you’d better not forget.

JBK — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:29:00 +0100

From Dark_Shikari.

Absolutely 100% generic commandline for maximum quality without stupidly insanely slow options:
 –bime –bframes 16 –trellis 1 –mixed-refs –8×8dct –subme 7 –b-rdo –me umh –direct auto –b-pyramid –weightb –threads auto –ref 8
For extra slow, add –no-fast-pskip, –merange 32, and –partitions all
for more slow, raise –ref to 16, and –me to esa
and also, get the latest AQ build and use my AQ at strength 0.7-1.0 or something.
if you want faster encoding
1) Lower –ref to 4
2) lower subme to 6, remove –b-rdo
3) remove me umh
if you want realtime encoding you’ll have to go lower on most machines

VLC switched to Git

JBK — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:14:00 +0100

Everything is in $subject.

Anyway, to check out the VLC repository, now:

git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

Have fun!

Bored with Debian - x264 patents

JBK — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:42:00 +0200

Debian has removed the x264 package from debian...

I am usually a strong supporter of debian, but I may change very quickly my mind...

x264

x264 was removed from debian unstable according to : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423250

With the very best explanation ever: Now - it contains mpeg4 stuff, try googling for "mpeg4 patent" once and you know why it needs to go out.

And with the very usefull link of http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr18.html. That states: the patents that will constitute the MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License support the charging of royalties on the use of MPEG-4 Visual streams in Europe" and that a license should be available within several months.

"Should" be ? I am not an englishman, but should does not mean is. Moreover the article is from 2002 and legislation about patents has changed in Europe since that date!

Patents

Video

Video programming is filled with patents.

This so stupid than ever... Hey, Joerg Jaspert, why don't you try "mpeg2 patent" in Google ? Oops, right ?

Then you should remove:

ffmpeg, libmpeg2,
mplayer, vlc, xine, ogle, totem, gstreamer,
cinelerra, avidemux...

Come on!

Other patents

What about "double-click patents" and "linux patents" in google ? It gives more answers than MPEG-4 patents... Maybe we should remove 'linux' from debian...