Mediainfo x264 mencoder autox264

[sub24ox7]

Let me start off by saying I hope I am in the right section to post this. Here is my question, I tried autox264 and I no matter what number I put in for reference frames when its done encoding mediainfo says it has ref=3 frames. I am wondereing how many were really used? seeing as this coulf be a problem of any of those programs I just posted it in x264 again I am sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. :-)
Oh and I havn't tried 3 reference frames or less only 6 on a 1920 x 800 and 5 on a 1920 x1040 video and both came back as ref=3.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Have you tried sidestepping a GUI and running a test encode on the CLI? I can basically guarantee that x264 is doing exactly what it's told :)

~MiSfit

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Yeah, I'd trust the values that x264 writes to file. These are the values x264 actually used for the encode!

And MediaInfo just reads the info as plain text from x264's custom SEI message in the stream, so this is very reliable! You can also verify it with a simple Hex Editor.

I assume that either the GUI is broken or the GUI tries to enforce a specific H.264 Level and thus limits the number of ref frames according to that Level.

[buzzqw]

and posting the command line used could be usefull too...

BHH

[sub24ox7]

Your all Right its autox264's fault I rechecked the command line and the command line queue was wrong (ref=3) only after removing that from queue and reloading did it come back right. I serves me right for not just using the x264 CLi. Thanks for all of your help. :)

[buzzqw]

i suggest to try automen if you want to use mencoder
it's updated, while autox264 no

BHH