Quote:
|
B-pyramid has a small enough benefit and large enough number of problems with some hardware devices that I don't want to deal with the bug reports.
|
Do note however that the problems lay in x264, not in the hardware devices.
Quote:
|
Maybe 4 or even possibly 5?
|
4 would break level 4.1 for 1080p streams. So either the default ref number depends on resolution (and then the users will never understand how it is set), or it stay at 3.