[x264-devel] Re: multi-slice encoders

[Michael Roitzsch]

Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for your answer.

> > Does something like this sound possible at all?
>
> Yes
>
> >(As far as I know, the H.264 standard should support that.)
>
> Yes, but only in baseline / extended profile, meaning you can't use  
> neither b-frames nor cabac nor weighted prediction nor all high  
> profile goodies, which makes that feature worthless ( imho ), in  
> addition to being impossible (too complicated) to use for gaining  
> coding efficiency

Coding efficiency is not so important for me. I want to do a research  
project on graceful degradation of playback when the CPU cannot keep  
up and I would like to play with FMO and switching slices. But I need  
an encoder that supports such features.

Michael

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