[x264-devel] CBP profile

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Ran Shalit <ranshalit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A profile is simply a label for the features that a stream uses.  You
>> can't "decode with" a profile.
>
> Right, but since profile information is part of the stream, it seemed
> reasonable to think that the decode also use or need the profile for
> decoding. But if I'm correct the decoder can decode the same stream
> with any other profile.

If you replaced the "baseline" profile_idc with "high" in a stream, it
would probably fail to decode, yes, since the header structure would
be slightly different.

Jason