Re: Multithread support

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:16:36 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.theora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Maik Merten wrote:
> Am 04.02.2015 um 12:31 schrieb Timothy B. Terriberry:
> Could this information be gathered by having one thread encode a
> downsampled version of the input video sequence, or would this be a bad
> predictor?

Yes. x264 has a lookahead thread with exactly this purpose (among 
others). But current libtheora has nothing like this.

> Who knows, perhaps one can also gather data on relative bitrate
> distribution between segments.

That requires significantly more lookahead, of course.