x264 Default Settings

[jesalbeta]

Hi fellow forum users,

I was wondering what the default settings for the x264 library are when encoding with FFmpeg.

For example, if I run the command "ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp4", FFmpeg will re-encode the video with some predefined default settings, since no other parameters were specified besides the input and output.

I know the default codec that FFmpeg will use for this process is x264, but not which specific parameters, since none were initially set.

I couldn't find any documentation answering this question, though I'm sure they're out there, so if you could point me to any of them that would also be great.

Thank you!