[x264-devel] Question on X264

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, ray yin <ryin01 at students.poly.edu> wrote:
> Dear x264 maintainers
> I am sorry to bother you.
> I am a graduate student at Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
> Recently, I am doing some research on X264 and SVC.
> Now I need to modify the function "getopt_internal" to support some other
> parameters besides optind and optarg . For example,
> I want to update the command line like this --qp argument1 argument2
> --frames argument1 argument2.However, I cannot step in
> that function with GDB and even add printf("Hello World") in that
> function didn't work.
> Would you please give me some advice or tell me how to figure out the
> problem? Why did the changes I made in getopt_internal
> not work at all? In my opinion, it should not be library function. And my
> platform is Ubuntu.

getopt is a system call.  It's part of libc.  If you want multiple
arguments, use a delimiter, like "X:Y:Z" or "X,Y,Z".

> In addition, I try to use "./configure --enable-debug" and then compile the
> source code. But the compiling didn't success because
> x264_VERSION cannot be assigned value.
> Thank you very much!

Install git.

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