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Sirber
31st May 2005, 18:37
Is x264 in mencoder updated regulary?
Does it has all options current x264 CLI have?
Yong
31st May 2005, 18:52
currently is up to date.
http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
the x264encopts in doc have zone and umh options and explanations.
afaik akupenguin will up date this doc when he submit x264 patches to mplayer/mencoder.

ot:now mencoder can use ffmpeg libavformat muxer to muxing a/v to diiferent container formats :D
bond
31st May 2005, 19:14
in contrary to the vfw codec, akupenguin updates mencoder and x264cli whenever he commits a new addition
Sirber
31st May 2005, 19:54
Ok, sweet!

Thanks for the infos! :D
giandrea
2nd June 2005, 17:21
ot:now mencoder can use ffmpeg libavformat muxer to muxing a/v to diiferent container formats :D

Yes, but if you use the MP4 container with the x264 encoder, the resulting MP4 file will have "H264" as fourcc, and not "avc1" as it should have. So it is pretty useless. If you change the fourcc manually the file won't play anyway with QuickTime 7.0.1... The only chance is ffmpeg, but I have still to understand how to use all the x264 options with ffmpeg... :D :confused:
bond
2nd June 2005, 19:51
Yes, but if you use the MP4 container with the x264 encoder, the resulting MP4 file will have "H264" as fourcc, and not "avc1" as it should have. So it is pretty useless. If you change the fourcc manually the file won't play anyway with QuickTime 7.0.1... The only chance is ffmpeg, but I have still to understand how to use all the x264 options with ffmpeg... :D :confused:
ffmpeg/libavcodec doesnt handle avc into .mp4 muxing correctly at all

but if you can use commandline anyways, you can use x264cli as its .mp4 output works perfectly
giandrea
2nd June 2005, 20:03
Yes, but the problem is that X264cli needs gpac to support the .mp4 output, and gpac won't compile on MacOS X (at least on my configuration), so I was looking for alternatives to mux x264 to .mp4. I will try x264cli > raw stream > mp4creator, but is there a way to pipe the MPlayer output to x264cli?
bond
2nd June 2005, 20:28
hm there have been macos patches for gpac recently, you might want to check them out
giandrea
3rd June 2005, 00:10
Mhh... it was the cvs source from two hours ago that gave me those problems... i'll investigate anyway...
celtic_druid
3rd June 2005, 05:21
If you aren't already run make lib, rather than make since it is only the lib that you want.