x264 3 pass

And the rest of the options would go where? I mean, in what pass? Oh, I'm not encoding in HD btw.

From my experience, using that full settings with 3 passes and some filtering, a 1 hr 30 minutes DVDRip needs 3 days to encode finish with my P4 2.4@3.24Ghz >.>" LOL, 2nd and 3rd pass all rendering in 0.67fps, 1st and the last time, no more 3 passes XD

For maximum quality use the same settings in all passes.

Thanks Dark Shikari for the tip. Any other settings from a x264 author e.g akupenguin :)

I'd like maximum quality as time isn't a problem for me. For that, what must I change/add in my current script? Thanks, Prim3

for max quality, you must use max settings. This means impractical settings such as --merange 64, --esa, --trellis-2, --bframes 16, --hadamard, --subme 7, etc... :eek:

I'v put together a profile for you I think you'd like for megui. :D It's called HQ-Schizo, get it

more passes doesnt mean more quality!!!!!!!! infact CRF (1 pass) mode gives more quality than RC (2 or more passes) modes. use more than 2 pass ONLY when ratecontrol isnt able to hit the desired bitrate.

You can set up CRF so that the bitrate doesn't go over a certain value by using a VBV. But you don't actually want to do that, because to ensure that the bitrate won't get over that value, VBV will prevent CRF from ever using locally a higher bitrate than max target bitrate. In some cases were CRF without constraints wouldn't have gone beyond the maximum average bitrate, contraining it with a VBV may reduce the quality of the most complex scenes, and will create a smaller file.