[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] increase max numbers of B frames

Loren Merritt lorenm
Sun Feb 19 22:24:20 CET 2006


On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Erik Slagter wrote:

> This increases max B frames, this is necessary for h264 encoding, which
> allows 16 B frames (maybe more?).

H.264 allows an arbitrarily large number of B-frames, but the useful 
number is no more than in mpeg4 (i.e. 3).
Not that there's anything wrong with the patch.

--Loren Merritt





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