[x264-devel] significance of b_have_lowres

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Nandala, Prashanth
<prashanth.nandala at patni.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Can some one educate me b_have_lowers parameter?
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> What is the significance of this parameter and how does it affect the
> quality/speed?

It is activated when the encoder needs to generate low resolution
frames for the lookahead.  It's an internal parameter that you should
not be touching as a user of libx264.

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