[x264-devel] http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141164

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Guillaume Poirier
<gpoirier at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Millar Clelland
>> <Millar at thinktech.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>>
>>>  I apologise if this is the incorrect way to send this in. I've registered over at doom9 only to discover that there's a 5 day wait before you can post. I seem to be having the same problem that's mentioned here -
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, you have found a problem, but its not the problem you thought you found!
>>
>> The Psy-RD patch causes x264, on occasion, to produce PCM macroblocks,
>> especially at higher bitrates.
>
> It this a bug (i.e. a sub-optimal encoder decision) or a feature?

Combination.  I'm probably going to disable PCM mode when psy-rd is on
because of this.

The real problem is that we don't have QP-RD, but... that's besides the point.

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