[x264-devel] Evaluating x264 -- first steps encoding greylevel images

[Eeri Kask]

Am 03/15/2010 09:08 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari at gmail.com>
schrieb:
>> Should this appear true, then the decoder should look much like the
>> one for I420 which we have already, even marginally simpler and
>> faster indeed (due to not having to deal with reduced chroma
>> resolution), so one would be tempted to just reuse the already
>> existing code (for this special case, for now)... ? :-)
> 
> If by "marginally simpler and faster" you mean "a 10,000 line patch
> affecting all facets of x264", sure.


Only to recapitulate, it appears something like ... 40% of the
codebase needs replacing in order to ... double the width/height of
the U, V planes in the encoder?   Oh, this is hefty indeed...

    Eeri Kask