x264 is a free software library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
x264 itself provides a command line interface as well as a library-level interface.
x264 is used to encode video files in mp4, m4v, h.264 (HD) output format.
Install x264 ------------ * Download the latest snapshot(tarball) here: # wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20090113-2245.tar.bz2 * Extract tarball # bzip2 -cd x264-snapshot-20090113-2245.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - # cd x264-snapshot-20090113-2245 * Build and install # ./configure # make # make install
Some problems with mplayer & x264
Install/compile mplayer with x264 support
-x264encopts is not an MEncoder option Checking for x264 ... no (in libavcodec: no) (./configure)
# svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
# cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
# svn update
# ./configure
After configure make sure you got
Checking for x264 ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)
# make && make install
Try latest version of video tools ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, flvtool2, mediainfo 🙂
Find correct path where you installed these components try …..
# locate command
“make sure you are using /usr/bin/mencode and NOT /usr/lib/bin/mencode”
🙂