x264 - x264_slicetype_slice_cost

static void x264_slicetype_slice_cost( x264_slicetype_slice_t *s )
{
    x264_t *h = s->h;

    /* Lowres lookahead goes backwards because the MVs are used as predictors in the main encode.
     * This considerably improves MV prediction overall. */

    /* The edge mbs seem to reduce the predictive quality of the
     * whole frame's score, but are needed for a spatial distribution. */
    int do_edges = h->param.rc.b_mb_tree || h->param.rc.i_vbv_buffer_size || h->mb.i_mb_width <= 2 || h->mb.i_mb_height <= 2;
   
    // 在一个分辨率为1280x720p YUV420p的视频
    // start_y = 43, end_y = 1
    // start_x = 78, end_x = 1
   
    int start_y = X264_MIN( h->i_threadslice_end - 1, h->mb.i_mb_height - 2 + do_edges );
    int end_y = X264_MAX( h->i_threadslice_start, 1 - do_edges );
    int start_x = h->mb.i_mb_width - 2 + do_edges;
    int end_x = 1 - do_edges;

    // 为什么反方向迭代？？？
    // x264_slicetype_mb_cost 求每个宏块
    // 在当前的假设前提下的预编码开销
    // 具体见 x264_slicetype_mb_cost
    for( h->mb.i_mb_y = start_y; h->mb.i_mb_y >= end_y; h->mb.i_mb_y-- )
        for( h->mb.i_mb_x = start_x; h->mb.i_mb_x >= end_x; h->mb.i_mb_x-- )
            x264_slicetype_mb_cost( h, s->a, s->frames, s->p0, s->p1, s->b, s->dist_scale_factor,
                                    s->do_search, s->w, s->output_inter, s->output_intra );
}