libx264 presets need -vpre option included for newer ffmpeg

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If I try to encode a video in mpeg4 format using libx264 I have this error: 
"[libx264 @ 0x77a0a0]broken ffmpeg default settings detected
[libx264 @ 0x77a0a0]use an encoding preset (vpre)". 
It appears with High Quality, Super High Quality and Very High Quality 
profiles; but doesn't appear with Fullscreen or Widescreen profiles.
I don't know if it's a winff problem or a ffmeg problem.
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit; Winff 1.3 and ffmpeg SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1

Original issue reported on code.google.com by skorpio1...@inwind.it on 13 Sep 2010 at 10:15

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Hi skorpio1066,

Thanks for reporting this issue.

How did you install winff (where did you get it)? If you got it from winff.org, 
how did you install your presets? As far as I can tell, there are no libx264 
presets in the standard winff-1.3.0 package (because at that time it didn't 
compile libaac). I have seen this issue on the forum several times thou. 
Probably you could try to add "-vpre hq" or "-vpre max" to the advanced command 
options and if that works add them to the preset.

For documentation:
! http://www.biggmatt.com/forums/index.php?topic=819.0
http://www.biggmatt.com/forums/index.php?topic=794.0

Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 13 Sep 2010 at 6:52

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Hi poipodeclown and thanks for your reply,
I've installed winff from its repo 
http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-climbing/ppa/ubuntu; from the official website 
I've downloaded the presets (presets-libavcodec52-v5). I've no problem with aac 
encoding with other software so I think that this is not the problem.
Now I'll try encoding adding the -vpre options in the profiles...

Original comment by skorpio1...@inwind.it on 13 Sep 2010 at 7:18

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Issue 90 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 6:28

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Ok, adding -vpre options to the advanced command options it works again.
But I don't know which is the best to add...I've seen in ffmpeg folder 
(/usr/share/ffmpeg) too many presets for libx264...

Original comment by skorpio1...@inwind.it on 14 Sep 2010 at 10:45

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For the ipod Nano I find that using the walkman settings. (4:3) for full screen 
and I made a new preset for widescreens where the video is encoded at 320x168. 
Both work great.. Perhaps its best to simplify the number of presets..

Original comment by csheph...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 10:54

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Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 25 Sep 2010 at 9:45

• Changed title: libx264 presets need -vpre option included for newer ffmpeg

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I'd like to add the following concerning the usage of libx264 presets on 
Windows XP machines:
I defined a separate ffmpeg installation (from 
http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/ - I extracted the contents of the 
archive to %PROGRAMFILES%\ffmpeg and added the path to %PATH%) in the 
preferences of WinFF.
To use libx264 presets on the command-line I needed to add a folder ".ffmpeg" 
to my home directory, include the latter into my environment variables and copy 
the preset files to the folder created 
(http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1368132#post1368132) to fulfill 
ffmpeg's requirements (http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC13).
The preset files are now available from the command-line, but I can neither use 
it from WinFF's profiles nor from the advanced command options.

Any ideas for a temporary workaround in order to use '-vpre fast_firstpass 
-vpre baseline' in WinFF for h264Baseline-compliant files?

Original comment by goo...@mit2m.de on 16 Nov 2010 at 12:49

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To answer my own question: '-fpre' does the trick (see 
http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC13 again), even from WinFF's profiles 
(in my case: '-fpre 
"%PROGRAMFILES%\ffmpeg\presets\libx264-fast_firstpass.ffpreset" -fpre 
"%PROGRAMFILES%\ffmpeg\presets\libx264-baseline.ffpreset"').
One possible disadvantage I can imagine: One got to know the path to the 
presets, which can be tricky in some situations (e.g. WinFF Portable).

Original comment by goo...@mit2m.de on 16 Nov 2010 at 2:29

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Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 4 Sep 2011 at 3:54

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So, now I am finally looking into how we should fix our presets, I find out 
that we NEED to specify at least the speed for all libx264 presets.

How to determine which one thou? I will try to figure out the closest to the 
speed and else choose medium.

Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 8 Oct 2011 at 7:00

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New preset file is available in the downloading section [1].

[1] http://code.google.com/p/winff/downloads/list?can=3&q=presets

Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 9 Oct 2011 at 11:12

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Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 4 Dec 2011 at 2:45

• Changed state: Fixed