x264.nl - build updates

[mcr]

How do you guys check for updates to the builds on x264.nl?

Since the site doesn't have RSS I was planning to use Page2RSS (http://page2rss.com/900da4e0684ae867a19d108775a3fca1) instead. That usually works but on x264.nl the last change was detected November 2011.

[Selur]

I subscribe to the x264 repository and normally x264.nl isn't far behind,...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Do you want to check for updates automatically/pragmatically with some software you are developing or do just want to get update messages for yourself?

[mcr]

Just want to be able to check for new builds without visiting the website every other day. RSS is the most efficient to do so.


Selur, are you talking about the videolan git? They have RSS but that doesn't tell when the win32 builds are updated.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just want to be able to check for new builds without visiting the website every other day. RSS is the most efficient to do so.

If your goal was to do that programtaically, I would simply download the content of http://x264.nl/x264_main.php and extract the current version (revision) number with some regular expression. Do that periodically, e.g. once per day or when your software is starting, and you can compare it to the last known version. If the last version number is smaller that the current one you just grabbed from the net, then you know that there is a new build available...

Selur, are you talking about the videolan git? They have RSS but that doesn't tell when the win32 builds are updated.

Sure. But once new commits are available in the official Git repository, the Win32 binaries on x264.nl will be updated very soon.

I think that web-site is running an automated build script, which will start generating new builds (at least for x86), as soon as the Git repository has been updated.

[bnshrdr]

extract the current version (revision) number with some regular expression.

@mcr
If you have bash, you can check the version of the x264 you have downloaded with this 1 liner I wrote for my auto compile script:
./x264 --help | egrep -m 1 -o 'r[0-9]+'

[JEEB]

I think that web-site is running an automated build script, which will start generating new builds (at least for x86), as soon as the Git repository has been updated.
Unfortunately, no -- there used to be automated compilation done on a related machine, but jarod later just asked me to build 32bit binaries as well, and completely moved to just mirroring my builds.

[mcr]

Thanks for the suggestions but RSS would be best solution for me.

The ffmpeg feed as an example: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/rss.xml

Can you make one for x264.nl too?

[jpsdr]

@Jeeb
Any rougth ETA of patched builds with fade-compensate and patch aq-mode 3 ?
Even directly on http://x264.fushizen.eu/files/ if site is still not working ?

Thanks for your builds.