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Old 2nd April 2013, 22:22   #4  |  Link
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Sync-lookahead is the number of frames in limbo in the queues connecting lookahead to the rest of the encoder. It has no effect on compression quality. Default value is as high as is useful to go. Reducing it saves some memory and latency and the cost of throughput, since lower values allow less leeway in when threads are scheduled.
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