[x264-devel] Passing custom data through the encoder.

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Dan Rosen <drosen at drdsystems.com> wrote:
> When using the API, is there any way to pass data arbitrary frame data
> through the encoder so that we can relate information from the source YUV
> frame to the encoded frame?  We could create a custom unregistered user data
> SEI, but then we would need to manually remove this SEI from the list of
> encoded NALs.  Was hoping there would be an easier and lower overhead
> technique.
>
> Thanks, Dan Rosen

I used this patch from Alex Giladi to do this:

https://github.com/kierank/obe-vod/commit/1259826d5d7ad08e5ab5a556c2f5789b900018cd