[x264-devel] Patch open gop

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Trahald wrote:

> ok.. i'll look at that. you cant have strict output with < 4 ref frames ,
> there just arent enough slots to do it. But it shouldnt be corrupt. i'll
> take a look

Can't you do it with dpb=3? You'd just have to change the coded frame 
order so that all disposable b-frames are displayed immediately (i.e. all 
would have 2 L1 refs). Though I guess it also needs open-gop, since this 
would involve reordering across keyframes.

--Loren Merritt