[x264-devel] Behaviour of Annex B encoding: bug or not?

[Måns Rullgård]

Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari at gmail.com> writes:

>> It's only because x264 generates more complete session information, which
>> includes several near-zero multi-byte integer parameters that result in
>> escape-required patterns of traffic, that we are seeing the problem.
>> It doesn't occur when the units talk to each other.
>
> This is unrelated.  Simply due to random chance, statistically,
> escaping bytes will be needed about once every 4 million bytes of
> data--ignoring headers.

Billion, surely?

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