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The versions which I list in the results are from official binary(linux version comes from ubuntu ppa),not my personal builds .

With slightly improvement,windows nightly build version still has the problem. I just tried 1.0.2-git version on linux, it doesn't have such problem. Here is my command line and results vlc.exe --intf rc -vvv d:\temp\output.avi --sout=#transcode{venc=x264{me=hex,weightb=0,partitions=normal,ratetol=1...

Windows Version. But when I build vlc git version with x264 which 0.8 used,it gets the same quality as 0.8 version. I found that qp is the cause of the quality penalty . With the same x264 config options in vlc, new version transcode with the average qp of 40 while old version is 25. That make new v...

I got the same problem with you. I don't think x264 settings should be blamed. I have compiled 0.8 and 1.0 with the same version of x264, 0.8 doesn't lose quality while 1.0 behave the same as official release. I checked the settings in x264.c and found no important changes. After v0.9,Transcoding wi...