source: multimedia/libdriv/x264.xml

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY x264-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/x264/x264-&x264-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY x264-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY x264-md5sum        "a80f596383ea12bc3137aad84dfb337b">
  <!ENTITY x264-size          "728 KB">
  <!ENTITY x264-buildsize     "12 MB">
  <!ENTITY x264-time          "0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)">
]>

<sect1 id="x264" xreflabel="x264-&x264-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="x264.html"?>


  <title>x264-&x264-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="x264">
    <primary sortas="a-x264">x264</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to x264</title>

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

    &lfs121_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&x264-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&x264-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &x264-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &x264-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &x264-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &x264-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">x264 Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="nasm"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="https://github.com/FFMS/ffms2">ffms2</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/gpac/gpac/releases/">gpac</ulink> or
      <ulink url="https://github.com/l-smash/l-smash">liblsmash</ulink>
    </para>


  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of x264</title>

    <note>
      <para>
        This package tarball expands to <filename class='directory'>x264</filename>.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Install <application>x264</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-cli &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

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

    <para>
      <option>--disable-asm</option>: Use this switch if you didn't install
      NASM.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libx264.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="libx264">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libx264.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the functions used to encode video streams into the
            H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="x264 libx264">
            <primary sortas="c-libx264">libx264.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>