[x264-devel] x264 codec

[Alan Harris]

Hi

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.

Regards
Alan Harris

Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Alan Harris <alan at resoft.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Xvid hasn't been developed significantly for many years: it does
> indeed date originally from a time period when people still used VfW
> encoders, albeit this was quite a while ago (very early 2000s).
>
> If you really, really, really want to use x264 with VfW, there are
> some (unsupported) patches that add support for it.  However, I cannot
> guarantee that they will work as you need them to, nor do I recommend
> them.
>
> Dark Shikari
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