Question / Help Custom x264 Encoder Settings

[aleixoteixeira]

Hey! First of all, I want to thank all of you for developing such an amazing software and making it free. Now, I have been recording a few bf3 videos, and the program worked really well during this time. After a while I felt the need to record with a higher quality, and I remember finding some settings that increased the quality greatly without the loss of FPS. These are the settings: crf=0 vbv-maxrate=0 vbv-bufsize=0. However, when I render the video, windows doesn't create a thumbnail, and I cannot edit it using any video editing software (I can still watch the video using GOM Player), as it recognizes the file a sound file instead of a video. I want to know if there's any way to solve this, or if there are different settings I could try. Keep in mind I do not know anything about video codecs and such, so please be as clear as possible if you can. By the way, my CPU is a Bulldozer FX8120 / Radeon HD6870. Thank you very much.

 

[Lain]

You should probably still try to specify a rate and CRF, but set the CRF low and the rate/bufsize high. 0 probably isn't the best option

 

[aleixoteixeira]

Hey Jim. What do you think would be some good CRF/rate/buffsize values? Thanks man.

 

[Lain]

if you just want to record videos to file only, then I'd just use something like 16000/16000 (or higher) and then do crf=12 (or less), experiment and see how you get things looking

 

[aleixoteixeira]

Yeah, I'm only using it to record videos so far. I tried those settings and it works amazingly. Thank you very much for your time, I really appreciate it.