[x264-devel] default level

[Loren Merritt]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Mathieu Monnier wrote:

> You must understand that hardware manufacters will target a level and
> adjust any hardware requirements to it as closely as possible, in order
> to reduce the cost. A hardware decoder supporting SD at most, but 16
> refs on SD, ought not exist ( I'm not affirmative, because there are
> crazy people out there... )

That would be true of hardware that does nothing other than decode h264.
But e.g. video cards have plenty of memory, I have no idea why they don't 
support more refs.

--Loren Merritt