[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Keyframe interval in the libvpx encoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:22:43PM +0300, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, the libvpx encoder sets VPX_KF_FIXED if keyint_min == gop_size. 
> According to the libvpx header:
> 
>  * This enumeration determines whether keyframes are placed automatically by
>  * the encoder or whether this behavior is disabled. Older releases of this
>  * SDK were implemented such that VPX_KF_FIXED meant keyframes were disabled.
>  * This name is confusing for this behavior, so the new symbols to be used
>  * are VPX_KF_AUTO and VPX_KF_DISABLED.
> 
> So, if keyint_min happens to be exactly equal to gop_size, it in practice 
> means no keyframes are placed at all. That can't be the correct behaviour, 
> can it? This would be fixed with the attached patch.
> 
> If such behaviour, no keyframes at all, should be exposed through the lavc 
> API, I don't think it should be for the case of keyint_min == gop_size at 
> least.
> 
> // Martin

do we have a maintainer for the libvpx specific code?

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