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Werner Robitza
Personal blog · slhck.infoprogrammingscience
Werner Robitza's personal blog at slhck.info covers programming and science. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Werner Robitza's CRF guide on encoding MP4s with ffmpeg. HN readers link it as a reference for quality settings, and one commenter cites it for near-lossless output.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website and blog by Werner Robitza, covering video quality, software, research, and notes.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-29
- Understanding FFmpeg Rate Control Modes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-29
What Hacker News says?
I don't have a 4k tv, but it is pretty close to lossless. https://slhck.info/video/2017/02/24/crf-guide.html
Comment linking /video/2017/02/24/crf-guide.html
on “Converting Large Movies to Smallish MP4s with Ffmpeg”Submitted Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding FFmpeg Rate Control Modes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typst with Pandoc: A Modern, Fast Alternative to (Xe)LaTeX for PDF Generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, X265) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
