[x264-devel] Win32 large-address-aware?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jeppe Øland <uxorious at acon.dezign.dk> wrote:
>>> While testing the new mb-tree code, memory usage runs rather high :-)
>>> I found that even on a 64-bit Windows, x264 is only allowed to
>>> allocate 2 GB memory.
>>
>> Try updating to the latest version; the memory usage has been greatly
>> reduced with the "threaded lookahead" change.
>
> I believe I am already running the latest version.
> Encoding 1080p content with --rc-lookahead 250 is a bit hungry.

Then don't do that ;)

Values over the default are mostly useless.

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