[MPlayer-dev-eng] x264 encoding over lavc [PATCH]

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/13/06, Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> wrote:
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 5/16/06, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> >
> >> > $subj
> >> >
> >> > ... sending patch due to the imminent release (dont want to break
> >> > stuff with this probably not terribly critical change)
> >>
> >> Apply, I don't see this breaking anything.  Or at least nothing that
> >> would not be better if we noticed it right away ;)
> >
> > Now that pre8 is out....
>
> Thanks, I forgot about it.
>
> There are a couple more things to do before lavc --> x264 is fully
> supported in mencoder.
>
> First: lavc has several x264-specific options (bpyramid, directpred,
> etc.) that ve_lavc doesn't yet have. Compare libavcodec/utils.c to
> libmpcodecs/ve_lavc.c. If nobody else adds these soon, I will.
>
> Second: should these options be documented? I have mixed options about
> this. In general, I'm in favor of documenting whatever exists; on the
> other hand, I can easily forsee users getting quite mixed up, especially
> since some of the options have slightly different names, like
> b_pyramid/bpyramid or trell/trellis. From a user's perspective, is there
> any advantage of lavc x264 over native x264? I can imagine lavc x264
> being useful for testing and debugging, but anybody doing that can
> probably RTFS well enough to see how the lavc options correspond to x264
> ones.

Right now, only "native" support is documented (lame, xvid, maybe
more), so at least for consistency reasons it's not strictly
necessary.

Other than that, as Michael pointed it out repeatedly, the correct way
to support lavc in mencoder is to add an AVOption parser so that any
new option added to lavc is automatically added in mencoder too. (at
least, that's what I understood).

I don't know how hard it is though.... :-(

Guillaume
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