[FFmpeg-user] debian and h264

[Joana Moll]

I'll check it out, thanks!

2012/5/24 Mike Scheutzow <mike.scheutzow at alcatel-lucent.com>

> Joana Moll wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question regarding the use of h264 in a Debian server.
>> My server provider told me that libx264 is not stable in Debian, so
>> instead
>> they've installed h264. As far as I'm concerned, libx264 and h264 are the
>> same, am I wrong?
>>
>
> My understanding is that debian is using a fork of ffmpeg, not the "real"
> ffmpeg.
>
> On this list, we provide help for the real ffmpeg, but not for the fork.
>
> There is no way to know what "we installed h264" means. If instead they
> said 'x264', that means they installed a standalone application that
> focuses mostly on h.264 encoding.
>
> There are millions of hits in google for how to use that app. You can
> start at http://x264.nl
>
>
>
>  The following command that it worked perfectly in a Freebsd server, it's
>> not working on a Debian one.  They say that I should use another codec
>> that
>> is not h264 although it's installed (?), so I feel they are confused.
>>
>> So what's the correct way to declare  -vcodec libx264 in Debian then?
>>
>
> You need to go to the fork's mailing list for help with that.
>
>
> Mike Scheutzow
>
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