[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mpegvideo_enc: add option to disable intra mbs in p frames

[Ramiro Polla]

Hi Michael,

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:44:25PM +0200, Ramiro Polla wrote:
>> This option prevents the mpv encoders from using intra macroblocks in
>> predictive frames.
>>
>> It is useful for glitch artists to generate input material. This option
>> allows them to split and merge two video files while maintaining fluid
>> motion from the second video without having intra macroblocks restoring
>> chunks of the first video.
>
> maybe a continuous variable like snows intra_penalty could achieve this
> too but give more flexibility in doing it also just partially if wanted

I like this idea better. I wanted a simple way to be able to entirely
disable intra macroblocks, but "-intra_penalty max" could cause an
overflow, so I set the max value to INT_MAX/2.

New patch attached.
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