encoding H264 interlaced PAFF (not MBAFF)

[marcorocchini]

Hi

please be patient: I'm a cat



I wonder if is there a way, commandline, windows 64bit, possibly via ffmpeg or another commandline-batch encoder

to do a standard PAFF encoding of mp4/h264 files

and the audio part AAC

In this case I need to avoid MBAFF encoding

thanks

[poisondeathray]

If you have nvidia card, nvenc can encode h264 PAFF. (NVencC or FFmpeg NVenc -c:v h264_nvenc) . But quality is significantly lower than software libx264 MBAFF

[marcorocchini]

yes I have a nvidia card but seems that quality is too low

does exist another tool like ffmpeg that can do paff/mp4 commandline encoding?

[poisondeathray]

You can do it with an adobe media encoder jsx script, but the h264 encoding quality is low too

[pandy]

Seem there is x264 with PAFF support https://github.com/kierank/x264-paff - not sure if it works...