[XviD-devel] Hints in API

suxen_drol xvid-devel@xvid.org
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:18:20 +1100


On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:18:29 +0100 Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez@free.fr> wrote:
> I know it's bit late to change that in 0.9.x series, but Hints are not a
> feature, they are a BUG. They are to manage in a nice way in core. I'm
> in favour of removing them in dev-api-3. I would like other devs to give
> me their impression about that.

i think hints should be intergrated into 2pass algo, so that on the
second pass the ME has to do less work. 

the HINTINFO stuff should be removed from the api... and in my api3
prototype i have done just that.

-- pete; life is like a box of ammo