x264 : mp4 files as input.

[audyovydeo]

Hello to all for my very first post.
Two things intrigue me :

#1.
I notice x264 does not accept its own files as input. That feels somewhat weird, as I think I ought be able to do :


x264 --qp 0 -o out1.mp4 in.avs
(for archival purposes)
x264 [ multipass blah blah ] -o out2.mp4 out1.mp4
(for final encoding)

Anyone knows how to do this ?

#2
when I do
x264 --qp 0 -o out.mp4 in.avs

the resulting file does not playback correctly : (vlc, wmp11, qt7.1.5).

Tried with a dozen different files on 3 PCs, just to make sure.

thanks for any ideas
audyovydeo

[akupenguin]

x264 doesn't decode. containers are the least of your problems for feeding h264 into x264cli.

[audyovydeo]

x264 doesn't decode. containers are the least of your problems for feeding h264 into x264cli.

I see. Will do my homework on the decoding side.
Thank you, akupenguin, for this very gratifying encoder.

audyovydeo