[FFmpeg-user] X264 and Smooth Text

[Werner Robitza]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Robert Nagy <ronag89 at gmail.com> wrote:

> However, at the first 1-2 seconds of the video the text looks quite a bit
> worse and then "pops" to better quality.
>
> Is there some setting I can use so that x264 uses a higher bitrate at the
> beginning of a clip as to avoid the "pop"?
>

I'm surprised that CRF 18 exhibits this kind of rate control issue. Have
you tried a fixed-bitrate two-pass encode?