ffmpeg and x264

[tanders12]

I'm currently using ffmpeg with video4linux to capture a webcam and convert to .y4m format and pipe to x264. I'm trying to reduce the number of binaries and pipes I'm using. I know that ffmpeg has support for libx264 but I remember reading some posts from a couple years back saying the x264 defaults in ffmpeg were pretty bad and not all options were available. Has this situation improved much/at all? Here are the options I'm using:

--vbv-bufsize
--vbv-maxrate
--bitrate
--input-res
--nal-hrd cbr
--fps
--tune zerolatency
--ref 0
--keyint
--muxer raw

[smok3]

as far as i know everything is available (take the git). p.s. There is now also a new Fraunhofer fdk-aac library available (which i did not test yet).