x264, MeGUI help

[† L4ugh]

I've been trying to nail down a few good avisynth scrips for awhile now and I think I've finally got a few that will work for me. Problem I need help with now is setting up the x264 settings in MeGUI so I don't loose all the quality these scrips are giving me. I found some profiles on Doom9 but they are 2pass encoding profiles and I'm wanting to use constant quality instead. Using 2pass just takes far to long on my five year old PC.

Is there anyone here that encodes with constant quality that wouldn't mine sharing the settings they use?

The only thing I encode is dvds so I don't need a whole bunch of different profiles. I'm just looking for something that will keep quality as high as possible for my live action and anime encodes.

Was also wondering if anyone has used the lossless x264 format yet?

I think I'll have to encode my IGPX (ova) eps twice to fix the different formats between the main ep and the credits, and I'd like to know if lossless x264 would work.

I'm posting pics of my current live action profile I've come up with so far. I know it's not perfect so any advice on making it better would be appreciated. The anime one I also have is pretty much the same as the one pictured here but Debloking is set to 0,0 and adaptive quantizers is disabled

[† L4ugh]

This thread can be closed or deleted because it is no longer needed.

[zolockit]

You said this can be closed but I just feel the need to say random stuff.

- http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings <- every encoder should look through that and try to understand the parameters/triggers of x and what they do. It's a bit outdated but meh.

- doing a x264 --help and looking at that would help too

- CRF 16-18 is usually good for DVD and usually a bit higher for BDs.

- Compression isn't only dictated by chosen bitrate settings (CRF, 2pass @ amount, etc) but the collective x264 settings will decide how well the video is compressed and also how it would look.

- Learning how to filter will with avs is also good.

- Taking a peak at others x264 settings by looking at mediainfo for whatever encodes you thought were done well trying stuff out yourself.

- Encoding takes alot of trial and error.

- Compression isn't only dictated by chosen bitrate settings (CRF, 2pass @ amount, etc) but the collective x264 settings will decide how well the video is compressed and also how it would look. <- I say this again because there are some fucks floating around the internet that make some bloated ass encodes, with lolFAT video, and blame it on their crf choice but completely don't understand how x264 works.

- Filtering is a bitch and doesn't just consist of making the image pretty so that you can show off LOL screenshots with screenshot comparison, there is also frame rate and other issues that some sources need to be addressed with. Blegh.

- Have fun, don't give too much of a fuck, or else this will be boring/frustrating.

- You will make mistakes, oh well such is life.