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Old 27th December 2009, 06:11   #10  |  Link
Dark Shikari
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Originally Posted by seanxu_2010 View Post
thanks for your explain, if bitrate < maxrate, what will happened?
Then you'll have capped VBR mode, where the local bitrate can't exceed maxrate.
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and another question is when we set VBV, has the --rc-lookahead been set as a default value? because, if not, how the x264 can guarantee the constant bitrate in a 10 seconds perspective?
RC-lookahead is on by default, but x264's VBV works without it as well, via a combined reactive/predictive algorithm.
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