Original author(s) | Laurent Aimar |
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Developer(s) | x264 team |
Repository | |
Written in | C, Assembly |
Type | Video encoder |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[1] (a proprietary licensing scheme is also available)[2] |
Website | www |
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]
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.
In addition to being free to use under the GNU GPL, x264 is also available under a commercial license. Contact [email protected] for more details.