Best x264 settings that you've ever tried

[anana]

Let's talk about your best / craziest x264 settings that you've ever tried
Sorry for my bad English, btw...
It's just for knowledge & fun

Here's mine for 1080p BluRay, 2-pass :

x264 --preset placebo --pass 1 --bitrate 5120 --profile high --level 4.1 --ref 4 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 4 --rc-lookahead 240 --no-dct-decimate --merange 64 --aq-mode 3 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080

x264 --preset placebo --pass 2 --bitrate 5120 --profile high --level 4.1 --ref 4 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 4 --rc-lookahead 240 --no-dct-decimate --merange 64 --aq-mode 3 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709

it use 8bit, 2-pass (bitrate 5120 Kbps), TESA, FULL RD


After doing many test, I found some settings that have much better quality in overal & some dark area of the video that only require almost 1/3 encoding time compared with the first settings above. Here's the settings:

x264-10bit --preset slower --crf 19.00 --profile high10 --level 4.1 --ref 5 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 4 --rc-lookahead 120 --no-fast-pskip --no-dct-decimate --merange 256 --subme 11 --aq-mode 3 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x800

it use 10bit, crf (bitrate 4696 Kbps), UMH, FULL RD

[poisondeathray]

Let's talk about your best / craziest x264 settings that you've ever tried
It's just for knowledge & fun

Here's mine for 1080p BluRay, 2-pass :
x264 --preset placebo --pass 1 --bitrate 5120 --profile high --level 4.1 --ref 4 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 6 --rc-lookahead 240 --no-dct-decimate --merange 64 --aq-mode 3 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080

x264 --preset placebo --pass 2 --bitrate 5120 --profile high --level 4.1 --ref 4 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 6 --rc-lookahead 240 --no-dct-decimate --merange 64 --aq-mode 3 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080

Those settings are not legal for blu-ray

Read these for more info

https://sites.google.com/site/x264bluray/home
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154533

[El Heggunte]

Let's talk about your best / craziest x264 settings that you've ever tried
It's just for knowledge & fun

Here's mine for 1080p BluRay, 2-pass :
x264 --preset placebo --pass 1 --bitrate 5120 --profile high --level 4.1 --ref 4 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 6 --rc-lookahead 240 --no-dct-decimate --merange 64 --aq-mode 3 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080

x264 --preset placebo --pass 2 --bitrate 5120 --profile high --level 4.1 --ref 4 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --bframes 6 --rc-lookahead 240 --no-dct-decimate --merange 64 --aq-mode 3 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080

Those settings are not legal for blu-ray

Probably the OP meant: "for re-encodes from Blu-Ray sources"...

[anana]

Those settings are not legal for blu-ray

Read these for more info

https://sites.google.com/site/x264bluray/home
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154533

It's from my BD
I encode it to video file for my own backup

Those settings are not legal for blu-ray

Probably the OP meant: "for re-encodes from Blu-Ray sources"...

You're right

[anana]

updated info from the first post..