| | Advanced Video Coding on Linux | Linux Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | However, encoding with an AVC encoder, such as x264, is very processor-intensive and thus can run pretty slowly, so we may not want to sit through a lengthy multipass encoding. |
 | | The number and variability of the parameters you can feed into x264 is great, and they are all geared toward improving the quality of the resulting output in some way. |
 | | The first is the subpixel motion estimation (--subme) size, which controls the precision of motion estimation calculations used by x264 during the encoding process. |
| www.linuxjournal.com /article/9005 (2650 words) |