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Old 11th October 2014, 14:49   #10  |  Link
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Originally Posted by r0lZ View Post
What I mean is that if you use a very slow PRESET (without limiting x264 to a certain profile or level), then the profile and/or level may be higher than what you expect, and therefore it might be NECESSARY to use the --profile and --level options.
What do I expect? I expect that, if I neither use "--profile" nor "--level", then x264 will set the "correct" Profile and Level for me. That is: the lowest possible Profile that my stream complies to as well as the lowest possible Level that my stream complies - given the current input file and the current encoder settings. Consequently, manually enforcing an even higher Profile or an even higher Level would make no sense. Enforcing a lower Profile can make sense, e.g. if I need to stick within "Main" Profile, because my playback device can only do "Main" Profile but not "High" Profile. Enforcing a lower Level, on the other hand, is almost always a very bad idea, as explained and demonstrated in the previous post.

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Can I request a small feature please. At the moment when you modify a profile it gives you the option to select a profile to overwrite. But I can't always remember the name of the profile I was editing and want to overwrite because it has a long name.
You can't modify Profiles, because they are predefined by the H.264 standard. All H.264 Profiles that x264 recognizes should be selectable from the "Profile" combobox.
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