[x264-devel] access to reconstructed pixels

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Dennis Munsie <dmunsie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm using libx264, not the command line version. I could use a pipe, but it seems a bit inefficient.
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> Also, it looks like the recon file needs to be a real file and not a special file because the recon frames are written in presentation order, not decode order. And to do that, the code uses seek to skip around in the file as necessary. So pipes won't work for this.
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> I was able to get the recon pixels via pic_out using the latest version from git and a small bit of code to add an option to always enable the deblocker. The pixels don't quite come out the same way they come in - there are only two planes, luma and an interleaved chroma - but otherwise everything seems good.
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> Other than decreased performance, is there any reason not to run the deblocker all the time? Will this have any unattended side effects?

No.

> Is there anything else that might need to be done to get the recon pixels accurately?

No.

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