On 18 October 2005 13:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an > > *encoder*) for linux? > > http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html > > x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. > > You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264.
Thanks! I'll have a look but guess "early development" isn't good enough yet. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB!!!! The encoding took 5 hours on a dual G5, though. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- [email protected] mailing list
