How to restrict bitrate

[Anakunda]

Greetings, how do I instruct x264 to don't produce more than given bitrate, while preserving --crf mode, giving --vbv-maxrate switches to VBV mode and disables CRF, or is it another switch?

thanks

[nurbs]

Using --vbv-maxrate doesn't switch off crf. It doesn't do anything as long as bufsize isn't specified. Then again setting maxrate to a value doesn't guarantee that the bitrate won't spike above that value as long as the VBV constraints aren't violated.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yep. You can safely use CRF and VBV together. Don't set unreasonable values though - i.e. CRF 18 + 2mbps maxrate and bufsize for high detail 1080p ;)

Derek