[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ipod320: restrict to refs=1 as in ipod640 (issue2399)

Christian Ebert blacktrash
Sat Dec 4 00:01:41 CET 2010


* Michael Niedermayer on Friday, December 03, 2010 at 18:04:40 +0100
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:33:15PM +0100, Niobos wrote:
>> On 2010-12-02 22:59, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:47:41PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
>>>> ---
>>>> ffpresets/libx264-ipod320.ffpreset |    1 +
>>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> i would suspect the limit to be on memory and not on refs
>> I suspected that as well, but was proven wrong
> 
> theres alot that can cause such artifacts, decoder bugs related to
> motion vector prediction come to mind as well as bugs related to how to
> fill the reference lists.
> I dont really care about apple producing crap nor about debuging their crap.

Is this getting ever so slightly emotional? ;-) Why does ffmpeg
offer apple device specific presets then?

> If someone tests what works and what not we can update the presets based on
> that. But i am against adding refs=1 because another file contains refs=1
> At minimum the question about which is the max number of refs that work on
> latest software & any hardware of apple has to be awnsered.

We don't know what's going on exactly, but until we do let's be
at least inconsistent and err on the unsafe side? Hehe.

As I don't really care about these crap products either - nor
about any product for that matter - I won't bother you about it
any further.

Cheers.

c
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