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Originally Posted by nm
No, he suggested skipping those frames completely, i.e. dropping them within the decoder. As you said, this causes jumpiness, but one could argue that it's still "improved decoding performance at lower quality".
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That's true. Some dropped frame here and there may still be better than a complete desync.
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Originally Posted by nm
The relative time required for these tasks depends a lot on the frame resolution and bitrate though. I'd guess that at low bitrates deblocking would be harder than CABAC with current software implementations.
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Yeah, but I think decoding performance hardly becomes a problem for SD content. More for HD content (720p or 1080p).
And then the bitrate probably is high enough to make CABAC the performance bottleneck...