[x264-devel] Re: x264 and streaming based project creation

Loren Merritt lorenm at u.washington.edu
Wed Oct 19 05:58:37 CEST 2005


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mathieu Monnier wrote:
>> 3) Is there a max resolution in the x264 encoder?
>
> There is, but it's larger than anything you could encode realtime with an 
> existing CPU ( from the top of my head, I'd say 2048x2048 ).

The largest resolution allowed by any of the Levels in the standard is 
4096x2304. x264 ignores levels, and will encode any size at all. (Of 
course, at extreme enough resolutions there are going to be arithmetic 
overflows somewhere, but you'll probably run out of memory before that.)

--Loren Merritt

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