x.264 encoding

[tungsten]

besides Megui and gordian knot what other programs for x.264 encoding are there.

[Richard Berg]

Platform?

mencoder? x264.exe?

Based on your other thread, you want speed. The answer is: it doesn't matter, the overwhelming majority of the time will be spent in x264 itself.

[omion]

besides Megui and gordian knot what other programs for x.264 encoding are there.
Note that there is no such thing as "x.264". There's h.264 (the codec) and x264 (the program). Based on your examples it seems like you mean x264.

However, as Richard said, there is no difference between them, as they just run x264 with some command line. Using that same command line in any other x264 wrapper will result in the same encode, and will take the same amount of time..

[MeteorRain]

and an upgrade of hardware maybe the only way to solve the problem :o

[virus]

There's h.264 (the codec) and x264 (the program)
To be precise, there's no such thing as "h.264 (the codec)", too.

H.264 (uppercase H please :)) is not a "codec", it's an international standard for video encoding. x264 is an "encoder". Maybe not 100% a "codec" since the decoding part in x264 is incomplete, but internally x264 is able to reconstruct a compressed picture and store it in memory (this is needed for temporal prediction), so basically calling it "codec", other than being shorter ;) is also quite correct.

</nitpicking> ;)

virus

[tungsten]

so all programs should encode at about the same speed using x264?

[bond]

all programs which use the x264 codec use the x264 codec (yeah ;) ) and therefore have the same encoding speed with the same settings

[Sharktooth]

unless those programs add intermediate $h!t between the source, avisynth and the x264 encoder.