settting X265 to more than 6 ref frames hass error

[EEMcGee]

When  setting number of ref frames to more than 6 in x265 it says "cannot set up codec.  Bitrate to low" when trying so save.

[eumagga0x2a]

http://x265.readthedocs.io/en/default/cli.html#cmdoption--ref should shed light on the reasons.

[EEMcGee]

Thanks for the info.  So from what I gathered it is limited by the commercial version of HVEC/x265.  That kind of sucks that the new standard (HVEC) is limiting it more than X264.  I wonder why they would do that.

[mean]

More to help you to have a stream that can be decoded by most devices/codec

[EEMcGee]

Maybe you could set 6 as the max for X265 settings.  I assume that would just be changing one variable in the code.  It would avoid people running into that and wondering what is wrong.  It took me a while to isolate ref frame setting higher than 6 as the culprit out of all of the X265 settings.

[eumagga0x2a]

Maybe you could set 6 as the max for X265 settings.  I assume that would just be changing one variable in the code.

This should be fixed now: https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/commit/c3fa6a3d42bf434189daaaa2a43b8ee637ea321d

Thank you for raising the issue.