Broken x264 in 1.0.0-pre?

[vlc_fan55]

I have just downloaded and compiled the latest vlc version on a Debian system, along with the latest version of x264.

The version numbers for vlc and x64:

VLC media player 1.0.0-pre1 Goldeneye
x264 core:67 r1129 c109c8e

I am transcoding to h.264 using this command line:

vlc -vvv -I dummy mms://a.b.c.d/ --sout=#transcode:rtp --sout-rtp-dst=127.0.0.1 --sout-rtp-port-video=20006 --sout-rtp-port-audio=20008 --sout-rtp-sdp=file:///usr/local/movies/file.sdp --sout-transcode-vcodec=h264 --sout-x264-bframes=0 --sout-x264-keyint=24 --sout-x264-min-keyint=10 --no-sout-x264-cabac --sout-x264-ref=3 --no-sout-x264-dct-decimate --no-sout-x264-fast-pskip --sout-x264-vbv-maxrate=160 --sout-x264-vbv-bufsize=2000 --sout-x264-partitions=all --no-sout-x264-chroma-me --sout-transcode-vb=160 --sout-transcode-width=320 --sout-transcode-height=180 --sout-transcode-fps=12 --sout-transcode-acodec=mp4a --sout-ffmpeg-aac-profile=low --sout-transcode-ab=48 --sout-transcode-samplerate=32000 --sout-transcode-channels=2 --sout-rtp-mp4a-latm --sout-ffmpeg-keyint=6 --sout-x264-level=1.2

The mysterious debug messages I get from vlc are:

[0x9f1e8b8] x264 encoder debug: version x264 0.65.X
[0x9de08a8] main libvlc warning: Could not inherit value for var sout-x264-bime from config. Invalid Type
[0x9de08a8] main libvlc warning: Could not inherit value for var sout-x264-b-rdo from config. Invalid Type

The quality of the encoded videostream is clearly inferior to what I got with vlc-0.9.8.

Any ideas what is going on?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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