Package x264: Information

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    Task #: #408600
    Build time: Feb 18, 2026, 03:30 PM
    New version: 164-alt2
Source package: x264
Version: 164-alt1.1
Latest version according to Repology
Build time:  Dec 12, 2024, 09:30 AM in the task #348582
Category: Video
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x86_64Dec. 27, 2025Feb. 18, 2026
i586Dec. 27, 2025Feb. 14, 2026

License: GPLv2
Summary: CLI H.264 encoder
Description: 
libx264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams.
The code is written from scratch.

Encoder features:
- CAVLC/CABAC
- Multi-references
- Intra: all macroblock types (16x16, 8x8, and 4x4 with all predictions)
- Inter P: all partitions (from 16x16 down to 4x4)
- Inter B: partitions from 16x16 down to 8x8 (including skip/direct)
- Ratecontrol: constant quantizer, single or multipass ABR, optional VBV
- Scene cut detection
- Adaptive B-frame placement
- B-frames as references / arbitrary frame order
- 8x8 and 4x4 adaptive spatial transform
- Lossless mode
- Custom quantization matrices
- Parallel encoding of multiple slices.
This package includes CLI based H.264 encoder.

List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
x264 (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, aarch64)
x264-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, aarch64)
x264-utils (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, aarch64)

Maintainer: Michael Shigorin



    1. libSDL-devel
    2. libavcodec-devel
    3. libavdevice-devel
    4. libavformat-devel
    5. libavutil-devel
    6. libswscale-devel
    7. libx264-devel
    8. nasm

Last changed


May 31, 2023 Michael Shigorin 164-alt1.1
- E2K: fix build (ilyakurdyukov@)
- minor spec cleanup
Dec. 2, 2022 Sergey Bolshakov 164-alt1
- API 164
Oct. 16, 2021 Anton Farygin 148-alt6
- FTBFS: disable LTO