[x265] Unable to encode huge frame sizes

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Mario Rohkrämer <contact at ligh.de> wrote:
>> Am 16.03.2014, 06:18 Uhr, schrieb JMK <three4teen16 at coldmail.nu>:
>>
>>
>>> Details in the "unofficial" x265.exe thread at Videohelp:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/357754-%5BHEVC%5D-x265-EXE-mingw-builds?p=2308898&viewfull=1#post2308898
>>
>>
>> Confirming:
>>
>> x265 8KTest.y4m --y4m --preset veryfast --crf 20 -o 8KTest_Y4M.hevc
>> x265 [error]: unable to open input file <8KTest.y4m>
>>
>> x265 8KTest.yuv --input-res 7680x4320 --fps 25 --preset veryfast --crf 20 -o
>> 8KTest_YUV.hevc
>> { starts encoding }
>>
>> avs4x265 --preset veryfast --crf 20 -o 8KTest_AVS.hevc 8KTest.avs
>> { starts encoding }
>
> See https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/issue/36/cannot-input-huge-files
>
> This is a MinGW32 limitation, using stdin works around the problem

I also found a bug in the y4m header validation code.  Fix queued.

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Steve Borho