x264-20250909
free H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder
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Description
x264 is a free software library and application for encoding video
streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.
Encoder features:
* 8x8 and 4x4 adaptive spatial transform
* Adaptive B-frame placement
* B-frames as references / arbitrary frame order
* CAVLC/CABAC entropy coding
* Custom quantization matrices
* Intra: all macroblock types (16x16, 8x8, 4x4, and PCM with all predictions)
* Inter P: all partitions (from 16x16 down to 4x4)
* Inter B: partitions from 16x16 down to 8x8 (including skip/direct)
* Interlacing (MBAFF)
* Multiple reference frames
* Ratecontrol: constant quantizer, constant quality, single or multipass ABR,
optional VBV
* Scenecut detection
* Spatial and temporal direct mode in B-frames, adaptive mode selection
* Parallel encoding on multiple CPUs
* Predictive lossless mode
* Psy optimizations for detail retention (adaptive quantization, psy-RD,
psy-trellis)
* Zones for arbitrarily adjusting bitrate distribution
Package information
- Ports path
- multimedia/x264
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
- Categories
- multimedia
- Available flavors
- None listed
- Only for architectures
- aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64
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