[x264-devel] Passing custom data through the encoder. (Kieran Kunhya)

[Dan Rosen]

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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

>You mean something like this existing feature:
 > /* private user data. libx264 doesn't touch this,
 >      not even copy it from input to output frames. */
 >  void *opaque;
>Except that x264 copies the pointer through?
>Jason

Problem is, our developers say the pointer isn't copied. 


> I used this patch from Alex Giladi to do this:
>https://github.com/kierank/obe-vod/commit/1259826d5d7ad08e5ab5a556c2f5789b9
00018cd

This is exactly what we are looking for, thanks. Any chance of having this
implemented in the supported code base?

Thanks, Dan Rosen