Encoding H.264 CBR videos with FFmpeg

Question

I\'m trying to encode a video with ffmpeg into H.264 (via the libx264 library) with a constant bit rate. I know, I know, VBR is often preferred, but for this specific job I\'m

Answer 1

This may be a clue (assuming you have a bitrate set) "CBR is when maxrate == bitrate and bufsize is set" http://ffmpeg-users.933282.n4.nabble.com/Does-constant-bitrate-exist-in-libx264-td2255554.html

bufsize is supposed to be the "receiving client's" max buffer size.