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

[Jeppe Øland]

>>>> 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.

I'm just running some tests on a short clip to see how things measure out.
(Even going for --rc-lookahead 100 ran out of memory)

Whether or not I should do that long-term is no reason to keep the exe
limited if it works fine otherwise.
Tomorrow I might be compressing a 4K video with shorter lookahead, and
who knows how that would go ;-)

Regards,
-Jeppe