[Bf-committers] To Peter Schlaile -- export in H264 using x264 lib and FFMPEG

Ilyes Gouta ilyes.gouta at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 08:23:43 CEST 2006


Hi,

As far as I know, the x264 encoder is slow and requires more CPU
cycles than say DivX, or more generally MPEG-4 ASP. It would be nice
to just start integrating the FFMPEG package then move to other heavy
duty encoders once they become stable and optimized.

Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

On 6/9/06, Joe Eagar <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rui Campos wrote:
> > Would it be hard to add the ability to export movie files as H264, using
> > x264 through FFMPEG ?
> >
> > Since there is already FFMPEG integration, I wonder if it isn't an easy
> > thing to add H264 export. The x264 lib is available by default in Ubuntu
> > Dapper and it is also available packed in most type of distributions on
> > the official website.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the improvements on this so far.
> >
> > -- Rui --
> >
> Also (slightly off-topic), it'd be nice if ffmpeg wouldn't export AVI's
> with FFV4 as the mpeg-4 fourcc (DIVX, MPV4 or even XVID (that one worked
> the best for me) would be better.  This kindof makes ffmpeg incredibly
> annoying to use for generating simple mpeg-4 avi's. :)
>
> Joe
>
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