Manual on x264

[bartnovsky]

I faced a necessity to slightly modify sources of x264. Before I spent nights in efforts to get how it works (which is inevitable) I would like to understand: is there any readable "Summa Technologiae" about x264?

And also: what is the usual (and preferably fast...) way of communicating with developers of x264?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I faced a necessity to slightly modify sources of x264. Before I spent nights in efforts to get how it works (which is inevitable) I would like to understand: is there any readable "Summa Technologiae" about x264?

There are some docs in the source tree:
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=x264.git;a=tree;f=doc

And there's that paper available:
http://akuvian.org/src/x264/overview_x264_v8_5.pdf

And also: what is the usual (and preferably fast...) way of communicating with developers of x264?

IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/x264)

[kemuri-_9]

IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/x264)

if it's related to x264 workings, #x264dev (irc://irc.freenode.net/x264dev) would probably be more appropriate.