[x264-devel] Enable non-deterministic mode by default?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Philip Muzzall <philipmuzzall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've read that disabling deterministic mode can help during symmetric
> multiprocessing at the cost of exact reproducibility. Since we would be
> streaming live and practically unable to reproduce the source material I
> don't think this is a problem, however I can't figure out a way to enable it
> within ffmpeg. Is there a boolean flag in the code somewhere that I can
> change to enable non-deterministic mode by default?

The effect of the non-deterministic flag is extremely miniscule; I
wouldn't worry about it.

Jason