int short_circuit_flat_blocks;
// Skip a number of expensive mode evaluations for blocks with very low
- // temporal variance.
+ // temporal variance. If the low temporal variance flag is set for a block,
+ // do the following:
// 1: Skip all golden modes and ALL INTRA for bsize >= 32x32.
// 2: Skip golden non-zeromv and newmv-last for bsize >= 16x16, skip ALL
// INTRA for bsize >= 32x32 and vert/horz INTRA for bsize 16x16, 16x32 and
// 32x16.
- // 3: Same as (2), but also skip golden zeromv for low res.
+ // 3: Same as (2), but also skip golden zeromv.
int short_circuit_low_temp_var;
// Limits the rd-threshold update for early exit for the newmv-last mode,