tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65718718304714279062011-05-05T13:26:54.328-07:00Yiliang Baohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12581650952789911755noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571871830471427906.post-31362281194511015812011-05-03T01:00:00.000-07:002011-05-03T01:00:30.792-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">x264 is a popular open-source H.264 encoder. It comes with the build files for Linux environment. To build project on Windows, the easiest approach is to do this using MingW/MSYS.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span>All the information is from the link:&nbsp;<a href="http://doom10.org/index.php?topic=26.0">http://doom10.org/index.php?topic=26.0</a>. However, the procedure in that page can be much simplified as explained in this post.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Operating System</span><br /><br />Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit operating system)<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. Software and configuration</span><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></u><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2.1. MingW/MSYS</span></u><br /><br />Go to page:&nbsp;<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/</a><br />Simply click "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; line-height: 18px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0099cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110316/mingw-get-inst-20110316.exe/download" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #0099cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/Automated MinGW Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110316/mingw-get-inst-20110316.exe: released on 2011-03-17 02:00:04 UTC">Download mingw-get-inst-20110316.exe (576.1 KB)</a>"&nbsp;</span></strong></span>to download and install software.<br />When asked to select software features, check "C++ compiler", and "MingW Devloper Toolkit". These are good features, but may not be necessary to compile x264.<br />Add the path to MingW/bin to system path. For example, I install MingW under "c:\work", so I add "C:\work\MinGW\bin". This is needed in order to search for the libraries to run x264, especially libpthread-2.dll.<br /><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2.2. Download yasm</span></u><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Download yasm of the latest version (version 1.1.0 currently, http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.1.0-win32.exe).&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Copy this file to the MinGW\bin folder, and rename it to yasm.exe.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2.3. Download x264 source code</span></u><br /><br />The latest x264 encoder can be downloaded from the following page:<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html">http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html</a></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. Compile</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">3.1. Open "MingW shell"</span></u><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></u><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">3.2. Go to the top-level directory of x264 project</span></u><br /><br />MingW shell will have a linux/unix like directory structure, and it will be at some unfamiliar directory by default. I downloaded&nbsp;x264 to "c:\work\x264", so go to the folder using the following command:<br />$ cd /c/work/x264<br />However, if you will not be able to see a folder "/c".<br /><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">3.3. Run "make" to compile the code</span></u><br /><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></u><br />$ make<br />It will run "./configure", followed by actual "make". If you forget to download yasm, "./configure" command will report such error.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6571871830471427906-3136228119451101581?l=mediaretriever.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Yiliang Baohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12581650952789911755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571871830471427906.post-64015869192884759892011-04-28T20:24:00.001-07:002011-04-28T20:24:35.147-07:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6571871830471427906-6401586919288475989?l=mediaretriever.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Yiliang Baohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12581650952789911755noreply@blogger.com0