The Ultimate h264 Video Encoding Tutorial 

Correction: when I say "kilobytes per second" I should be saying "kilobits per second". Thanks to tresf for pointing this out! Another correction: at 6:56 I accidentally put the red X over veryslow because placebo isn't on that chart. Veryslow is often the best choice if you're encoding a large video overnight or something, so ignore that red X and listen to the narration instead. Correction 3: At 4:53, I said that increasing CRF will increase file size and decreasing will decrease file size. That's the opposite of what will actually happen. Increasing CRF will *decrease* file size and vice versa.

This is a very good video. Great explanations for us dummies who are looking at this as our first introduction to codecs, and simple visuals that really help get the point across without being too distracting.

Best video I've watched in a while! Fun, fast paced, and super informative. Nice work Jousboxx!

finally an informative video, it surprised me this doesn't have more views

This was the best concise video I've seen for this, thank you so much for your tutorial! I needed it for college portfolios lol

Very educational. One mistake I could spot in my limited understanding though was that it's kilobits per second and not kilobytes

Fun to learn and very informative ......Thanks for sharing

Thank you so very much for this tutorial! I'm new to using OBS studio and this video is very helpful! Again, thank you!

This video was amazing. Thank you so much.

Best video ever bro ! This is a life safer... You just got yourself a subscriber. Damn !

Thanks a lot for the explanation!

I wanted to verify how to encode with x264 as I need to encode again but not so keen on buying new hardware just for that. Your video cleared my mind. Very informative and clear with the images. Maybe you could have include the file size in the examples. Top !

Damn... Really informative!

Holy shit this was so useful damn man good job

You work cool !!

Only 9k views lmao. This is one of those videos who explains in few minutes something that lecturers tries to explain us in university in over 5 hours.

There is probably a small error regarding the CRF file sizes at 4:58: DEcreasing CRF by 6 (e.g. 6 to 0) makes files double the size. INcreasing CRF by 6 (e.g. 0 to 6) halves the file size. It's a little confusing because "lower is better".

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Fascinating. It's so time consuming and annoying to encode. I don't like it. It's too much work 😭 why can't it be easy

6:04 "Has GTX 1080Ti, plays Minecraft" Too bad. It's too weak to have Ray Tracing in Minecraft. I'd meme myseft too if I were in your place

This guy is talking nonsense At fast the image is better at a smaller file size than with very fast but you have to turn down the overall bit rate because the encoder at faster to medium is using more Bitrate for demanding scenes than the faster ones If you encoder 4k you should use medium with a AMD 2600x and on 1080p you should use slow with this cpu And do not use hardware encoders they are completely useless for non streaming

H265 is better.