[x264-devel] [patch] control of maximum nalu size (multi-sclicing)

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Simon Morlat<simon.morlat at linphone.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> There has been a much more complete patch on this already but it
>> has not been merged:
>>
>> http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/2008-June/004663.html
>>
>>
>> In your patch maximum slice # is 128 but in the above patch, it is
>> dynamically allocated. It also allows setting slice size by macroblock
>> number as well as size in bytes.
>
> Yes I know this patch. Unfortunately it is no more possible to apply it since
> a long time.
> My hope is that as mine is simpler, it is easier to review, so get better
> chance of being merged.
> Why this former patch didn't been accepted ?

I have already stated that I will apply a slicing patch when ffmpeg-mt
is merged to trunk ffmpeg.

This is because I don't want people using slicing for decoding
parallelism purposes.

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