[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: movenc.c ipod h264 suggested change

[Baptiste COUDURIER]

Hi

Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Baptiste COUDURIER wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>
>>> and i assume loren is ok with using the raw values for level & profile?
>>> not sure if theres a better aproach anyway ...
>>
>> Maybe there is an interface to x264 for retrieving profile and level
>> indication ?
> 
> Hmm... the x264 api currently has no way to retrieve global info from
> the encoder. I suppose I could write profile back into param_t after
> deriving it from the other settings. But that doesn't affect the
> decision for ffmpeg's user interface, it just means ffmpeg could tell
> you if you picked incompatible settings.
> 

Yes, that way, ffmpeg profile and level would be set to correct ones, by
default.

Thing is, why changing profile and level if parameters does not
influence them ?

IMHO, just setting profile and level differently cause ipod will read it
is nonsense. I agree that default values might not be correct, it would
be great to fix them once for all, depending on parameters.

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