realy good x264 solution for mac?

[peteag]

Hello, I'm using a PowerMac and wanted to use x264 to encode my movies. But all I've got were Handbrake (too few options) and ffmpegx (more then handbrake but even to few options). Is there something like MeGui for mac or something? Thank you.

Merry Christmas!

[Sharktooth]

Dunno, i'm not a mac user... but i think MeGUI (since is written in C#) can be adapted to Mono platform: http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

[peteag]

what about the engine. Is there any compiled version of x264 ready for ppc?

[Revgen]

Well, Apple is moving to Intel procs now, so perhaps there is a way to adapt X264 to the platform.

[giandrea]

x264 compiles perfectly on MacOS X. You need the developer tools, available freely from the Apple site or as a CD with your computer or MacOS X box. Use the last version compatible with your MacOS X version.

Once you have compiled x264 you can use the CLI, or better, you can use mencoder (you have to compile it after x264) to encode your clips from the command line with all the x264 settings available. Mencoder only outputs AVI. Perhaps you can even encode with ffmpeg, you have to compile it, and it outputs to almost all containers, including MP4.

[peteag]

I don't have any ideas of compiling software. I don't understand this very good. Is there a way to get this software already compiled?

[kothrush]

Try handbrake. http://handbrake.m0k.org/ . It lacks some features but still works for compressing DVDs to AVC.

[Sharktooth]

x264 compiles perfectly on MacOS X. You need the developer tools, available freely from the Apple site or as a CD with your computer or MacOS X box. Use the last version compatible with your MacOS X version.

Once you have compiled x264 you can use the CLI, or better, you can use mencoder (you have to compile it after x264) to encode your clips from the command line with all the x264 settings available. Mencoder only outputs AVI. Perhaps you can even encode with ffmpeg, you have to compile it, and it outputs to almost all containers, including MP4.
It's not properly true. IIRC mencoder doesnt support "every" x264 settings and libavformat (used for mp4 output) is b0rked.
however x264 cli should compile without problems under OSX.

[peteag]

How to do that? Do you have some tutorials for me?

[Sharktooth]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=92726
read the whole thread and you'll get an idea in what to do to compile x264.
you still need the dev tools from apple instead of mingw (pc).

[giandrea]

You can get mencoder with support for x264 for Mac OS X from
http://mplayerosx.sf.net/
you can get ffmpeg from the FFmpegX application. Download it and open the .app, then in the Resources folder you will find the ffmpeg binary.
Both of the apps are from the command line, you will have to learn how to use them. Use their help and Google.

[Zep]

Hello, I'm using a PowerMac and wanted to use x264 to encode my movies. But all I've got were Handbrake (too few options) and ffmpegx (more then handbrake but even to few options). Is there something like MeGui for mac or something? Thank you.

Merry Christmas!


there are dozens of ways but the quickest to get going is ffmpegX

here is a screen shot of just the video tab to give you and idea
how cool this app is. (scan down the page to see all the formats it supports)

http://homepage.mac.com/major4/video.html

[peteag]

There's no support for x264-2-pass-encodig in ffmpegx!