[x264-devel] default level

[Loren Merritt]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Loïc Le Loarer wrote:

> I'm seeing many many H.264 streams encoded with x264 in 5.1 level,
> because it is the default level. The problem is that some decoders
> doesn't play correctly those files because they don't support this
> level.

See debate at 
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/2008-January/003922.html
I personally don't care very much about either hardware decoders or levels 
compliance, so both sides of the debate are acceptable to me. (The part 
that's not acceptable is actually implementing all the restrictions or 
enabling VBV by default.) And refusing to play a stream based only on its 
level is a _bug_ in your decoder, which I won't work very hard to fix.
Discuss amongst yourselves.

--Loren Merritt