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On 18 October 2005 13:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: |
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> Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an |
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> > *encoder*) for linux? |
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> http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html |
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> x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. |
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> You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264. |
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Thanks! I'll have a look but guess "early development" isn't good enough yet. |
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I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising |
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results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB!!!! The |
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encoding took 5 hours on a dual G5, though. |
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