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

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Michael Roitzsch wrote:

> x264 handles one thread per slice, so they are directly related. I think you
> can safely remove this limitation as long as the number of slices/threads stays
> below the number of macroblock rows (video height / 16) of your video.

But it hurts the image quality, that's why it probably doesn't make much 
sense unless for very large image sizes.

(it is not possible to use content from one slice to predict the content of 
another slice)

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