GPL-2.0-or-later[1] (a proprietary licensing scheme is also available)[2]
Website
www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
x264 is a free and open-source software library and a command-line utility developed by VideoLAN for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding format.[2] It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.[2]
^"x264.c · master · VideoLAN / x264 · GitLab". VideoLAN. Retrieved 2021-07-05. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
^ abc"x264, the best H.264/AVC encoder - VideoLAN". VideoLAN. Retrieved 2021-07-01. In addition to being free to use under the GNU GPL, x264 is also available under a commercial license. Contact x264licensing@videolan.org for more details.
x264 is a free and open-source software library and a command-line utility developed by VideoLAN for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video...
February 2012, a consortium of popular piracy groups officially announced x264, the free H.264 codec, as the new standard for releases, replacing the previous...
x264, an open-source video encoder for the previous MPEG video coding standard, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The project has licensed the rights to use the x264...
Twitch, Instagram and Facebook. For video encoding, OBS Studio can use the x264 transcoder, Intel Quick Sync Video, Nvidia NVENC and the AMD Video Coding...
34%, 46.2%, and 50.3% higher data compression than libvpx-vp9, x264 High profile, and x264 Main profile respectively. Like VP9, but unlike H.264 (AVC) and...
implementation in libvpx, x264 and x265 was made by an FFmpeg developer in September 2015: By SSIM index, libvpx was mostly superior to x264 across the range of...
Fiona Glaser, a developer of the x264 encoder, wrote a very early critique of WebP. Comparing different encodings (JPEG, x264, and WebP) of a reference image...
many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to...
AVC/H.264 video codecs comparison showed that Quick Sync was comparable to x264 superfast preset in terms of speed, compression ratio and quality (SSIM);...
better quality than VP8. In September 2010 Fiona Glaser, a developer of the x264 encoder, gave several points of criticism for VP8, claiming that its specification...
the x264 codebase around two months earlier. This was relayed by media, which remarked that the employee who filed the patent was following the x264 project...
the open source x264 encoder. At minimum, the following command line creates an H.264 bitstream within the DivX Plus HD profile: x264 --vbv-maxrate=20000...
from the original on March 27, 2020, retrieved April 15, 2020 Diary Of An x264 Developer: Announcing the world's fastest VP8 decoder, archived from the...
Xvid are not compatible with this feature. H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC (using x264) H.265/HEVC (using x265) Decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (using libavcodec) MPEG-4...
"Doom9's Forum - View Single Post - x264 Lossless question". "Hierarchical B-Frames or B-Pyramid - Video Compression". "X264 Settings - MeWiki". mewiki.project357...
gain in x264: Variance Adaptive Quantization (VAQ) is a video encoding algorithm that was first introduced in the open source video encoder x264. According...
particular build of FFmpeg is linked against any GPL libraries (notably x264), then the entire binary is licensed under the GPL. FFmpeg is used by software...
capabilities and licensing costs. This claim has been disputed by a developer of x264, a popular H.264 encoder. In April 2005, On2 Technologies licensed On2 Video...
after motion estimation in lossy video compression encoders such as Xvid and x264. Trellis quantization reduces the size of some DCT coefficients while recovering...
rmvb". RealMedia uses compression similar to MPEG-4 Part 10 encoders such as x264. RMVB files are popular for distributing Asian content, especially Chinese...
released in December 2013, the HM-10.0 HEVC encoder was compared with the x264 encoder (version r2334) and the VP9 encoder (version v1.2.0-3088-ga81bd12)...
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