Commen=
t # 3
on bug 10803=
6
from Kurt Kartaltepe
> The hardware supports some high profile features=
(like CABAC), but
> unfortunately not all of them (like B-frames or MBAFF).
>=20
> Now the profile selects what the decoder needs to be able to do to han=
dle a
> certain video, but doesn't tells you anything about the encoder except=
for
> selecting the encoding of the headers.
>=20
> We should support the encoding of the headers, so if an application se=
lects
> high profile it actually gets better compression because of CABAC supp=
ort.
>=20
> But if the application also tries to use B-frames it will get an inval=
id
> stream.
Yes, the issue is that valid settings produce a stream that is invalid.
Personally I would be more than ok if the resultant stream on high was with=
in
constrained baseline specs as long as it returned a valid stream.
Because hardware encoders are such black boxes I care very little for the
settings i cannot control (such as exact compression techniques) and expect=
the
ones i can to work.