On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:51:49PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:24:10 +0000 > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The problem with x264 is that it's always a snapshot. For people > > using today's ffmpeg snapshot, today's x264 probably works. For > > people using a released version of ffmpeg, who knows. That's why > > I've mentioned a specific "known to work" snapshot of x264 o nthe > > ffmpeg page. > > Why would you install x264 for ffmpeg? The ffmpeg devs wrote their own > h264 decoder which is supposed to be a lot faster than the x264 > decoder. You have to force ffmpeg to link to x264, the default is for > it to use their own code. > > Andy
Really ? For releases, I find it very hard to identify what they changed. At some point I was testing on a snapshot that was thought to be "reasonably up to date for BLFS-6.4", then later on the releases. So, I don't know *which* version I was testing where x264 seemed to help. In the past, someone added x264 as a dependency, and I've seen nothing in the output from configure that says "hey, you don't need this" although most other options get changed from time to time. I don't have time to follow ffmpeg development, nor most application development. I've just looked at the logs on my ibook (ppc, x264 didn't build there in the LFS-6.6 days) and the configure output from ffmpeg-0.5 just says "no" for x264. And that build (without x264) was pretty much a waste of time - theora works, but not much else in the video line is usable. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
