[x264-devel] Re: parallising the encoder

[Måns Rullgård]

Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> writes:

> No need for extra keyframes if you have a little overlap or run a
> scenecut detector in advance. Also, I originally thought it hurt
> ratecontrol, but you can do overflow compensation just like normal as
> long as the encoders can communicate at least once every few frames.

I found it to Just Work, for whatever reason.

> The only problem is that it needs significant application support. I
> don't forsee it in ffmpeg, only x264cli and elder.

FWIW, TCVP has the necessary framework.

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