open source H.264 or MPEG4 encoder ?

[sherif_hanno]

Hi all

I'm totally new to video world & extremely need help

I'm making a small video streaming project

I have the mainconceptV2 encoder which is by the way gr8

but I need an open source encoder

or a program that I can control it from the command line

any tip will be helpful

Thx in advance :cool:

[Theliel]

x264 is the best open source h264 encoder and probably it'll be the best encoder for all.

http://www.x264.nl/

[sherif_hanno]

x264 is the best open source h264 encoder and probably it'll be the best encoder for all.

http://www.x264.nl/

:thanks: alot...it was really helpful

but I'm little more greedy

another question

is there open source code written in JAVA ?

[bob0r]

x264 is the best open source h264 encoder and probably it'll be the best encoder for all.

http://www.x264.nl/

Why www. ?
Arg... i have to forward www. to some work unsafe website i think :angry:

[Theliel]

i dont belive this, sorry :(. always you could translate entire source code to java :S

[sillKotscha]

Why www. ?

because even without it you're still a part of the world wide web ;)

live with the fact - it will always be the www ...

[DeathTheSheep]

Argh, very true; sometimes domains registered under straight http://something.yea/ have problems when working with www and vise versa. It's CRAZY!

[ChronoCross]

i dont belive this, sorry :(. always you could translate entire source code to java :S

hahaha. you'd only take a 5000000000% speed loss.

not to mention there is no guarantee that all of it could be properly done in java.

[foxyshadis]

Not that slow, but if you take the speed of x264 with --no-asm, and half that, you're probably in the ballpark. Which on i386 is going to be a huge drop.

It could definitely be done just by a very long, very tedious code conversion - the trickiest parts are the function pointers, and they're almost exclusively used for asm optimization, so they can be ignored. Starting from the JM probably wouldn't be any easier and definitely wouldn't be as high quality (without taking another 10x speed hit on esa me). The various allocations, pointer/arrays, etc could be redone with java-native syntax.

[ChronoCross]

yeah that's the main problem. plus you'd want to design the code to be java class specific and use the correct heirarchy if you want it to be done right. Not worth it even for educational purposes.

[Sirber]

They can do anything for educational purposes... mostly if it has no uses. ;)