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From: Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes@gmail.com>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] PATCH] Make H.274 film grain support optional for H.264. Saves ~779kb.
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:10:52 +0200
Message-ID: <CA+anqdzjNMZxV3T60bg38HaNjro415pocKerPy14dFSs1nKskw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPUDrwfMtKuXr2j_3iaj3A9yD9X2rz2ZyffqixxD5cper=Fi7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 9:32 PM Dale Curtis <dalecurtis@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Film grain support adds a huge amount of overhead to the H264Context
> structure for a feature that is rarely used. On low end devices or
> pages that have lots of media this bloats memory usage rapidly.
>
> This introduces a --disable-h264-film-grain option which makes
> these fields optional and reduces the H264Context size from
> 851808 bytes to 53444 bytes.
>
> Bug: https://crbug.com/359358875
> Signed-off-by: Dale Curtis <dalecurtis@chromium.org>
>

Disabling random codec features seems like an anti-feature to me, in
the future it'll make every feature be questioned and compile-time
conditional, and make everything terrible.
If the context size is the major concern, maybe large structures
should be allocated when in use, rather than always?

- Hendrik
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-13 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-13 19:31 Dale Curtis
2024-08-13 19:47 ` James Almer
2024-08-13 20:08   ` Dale Curtis
2024-08-13 20:10 ` Hendrik Leppkes [this message]
2024-08-13 21:38   ` Dale Curtis
2024-08-14  6:29     ` Christophe Gisquet

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