Re:Font Activations: A Note on the Type
by mananaysiempre on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:57AM
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Fun tidbit: all videos encoded by x264 (ETA: x264 not ffmpeg) contain the settings used by the encoder. The user can of course strip them after the fact or patch the code out of their build, but the upstream maintainers have insisted on leaving it in.
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Re:Font Activations: A Note on the Type
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:21AM
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What's the command to extract those flags? Was it always there and I just didn't notice?
Re:Font Activations: A Note on the Type
by mananaysiempre on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:00AM
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Sorry, I was misremembering on two counts: it’s x264 that does this, not ffmpeg (but you’re using x264 if you’re making H.264 with ffmpeg); and the info is the encoder’s actual settings, not the flags (so a preset like “veryslow” will get expanded). With those caveats, the information is displayed for example by mediainfo under “Encoding settings”.