[x264-devel] Re: encoding with lots of small slices

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 7/20/06, Michael Roitzsch <mroi at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Hi x264 team,
>
> for a research project I am trying to create H.264 files with lots of
> small slices. I realise that the code of x264 limits the amount of
> slices. Maybe you can give me some starters, which assumptions would
> break if this limitation is removed. I already tried to encode videos
> with 128 slices and more, but as soon as slices do not start with the
> first macroblock of a macroblock row, but somewhere in the middle of
> a row, the video looks wrong when decoded with FFmpeg's H.264
> decoder. This could of course be a bug in FFmpeg, but I guess it's
> more likely to be something in x264 that breaks when I remove the
> slice limitations. I would appreciate any ideas on this.

Likewise, I'd be interested to know why the max number of threads is
4. I bet both are related.

Guillaume
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