x264-20230215

Introduction to x264

x264 package provides a library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.

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Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

Install x264 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-cli &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

--disable-cli: This switch disables building the command-line encoder which is redundant since it requires FFmpeg for most of the input formats.

--disable-asm: Use this switch if you didn't install NASM.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libx264.so

Installed Directory: None

libx264.so

provides the functions used to encode video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format