[x264-devel] x264 codec

[Alan Harris]

Jason

Thanks. As I suspected I was just showing my ignorance of the present 
state of affairs.

Yes Xvid have the library available for direct integration, but they 
also have a "codec" which when installed is directly visible to Windows 
via the video device drivers and available as a filter. As this is dated 
this year, I assumed it was typical of processes in use.

Thanks and I will not waste anymore of your time.

Regards
Alan Harris

I wasn't ware that the

Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Alan Harris <alan at resoft.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> Sorry, I was hoping to be able to download ready to use binary codecs
>> rather than the source code. The references on the VideoLan site are
>> "Unofficial builds for Windows are available from Jarod
>> <http://x264.nl/> or Sharktooth
>> <http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=89979>." However, these are the
>> command line program to convert formats rather than just the codec. I
>> hope I am not just being stupid here! Every other site appears to have
>> the same download.
>>
>> I am aware of the GPL licence, and have no intention of infringing it. I
>> am doing some experimentation work with the OpenSceneGraph project which
>> is LGPL, producing a video generator, which obviously needs a codec. I
>> have Xvid working, but reviews I have seen say that x264 is a lot better
>> and would like to try it.
>>     
>
> Huh?  The commandline program *is* x264.  You can also link to the
> library, libx264, by including x264.h, which is how one uses it in a
> program (other than the option of directly calling it as an
> executable, of course).  Its exactly the same with xvid: xvid is
> available as libxvid, or as xvid_encraw, a commandline encoder that
> takes YV12 and Avisynth input (same as x264).
>
> Now, if by "codec" you mean "Video for Windows encoder," x264 does not
> and will never support that.  Video for Windows, dating from the early
> days of Windows 3.1, is not a sane encoding solution for this century,
> and we are not going to try to include the dozens of workarounds
> necessary to support such an ancient API that doesn't even work
> properly with H.264 to begin with.
>
> If you're looking for a DirectShow encoder, there's (on Doom9) a
> patched version of the x264 executable to allow DirectShow input
> without using Avisynth, which you might find potentially useful.
>
> Dark Shikari
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