x264-20140115-2245

Introduction to x264

x264 package provides a library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform.

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20140115-2245-stable.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d8728ab9879a37f88970992a435298b5
Download size: 609 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU

Install x264 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-cli &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

--disable-cli: This switch disables building the command-line encoder which is redundant since it requires FFmpeg for most of the input formats.

--disable-asm: Use this switch if you didn't install yasm.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libx264.so

Installed Directory: None

libx264.so

provides the functions used to encode video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

Last updated on 2014-02-20 13:02:22 -0800