Download v2.1Patch v2.1Download v1Patch v1New features (v2.1):1. Input from anything, even without Avisynth or DirectShow codecs, even on Linux!
2. "True VFR": x264 maintains timestamps from the input, allowing native processing of VFR video. No more timecode files!
3. Use --demuxer to force a particular input method (lavf, ffms, etc).
4. Automatic handling of all kinds of weird input (changing resolution, etc).
5. A near-complete rewrite of the x264cli internals to handle the above.
6. Periodic Intra Refresh.
See the three commit messages in the patch for more details.
Gotchas (v2.1):1. There seem to be some types of files (raw h264?) that FFMS refuses to index. We'll be looking at that, but LAVF should work fine in the meantime.
2. FFMS won't work on piped input.
3. x264 doesn't by default save the index file from FFMS, so it has to re-index on every pass unless you use --index. We may change the default behavior in the future.
Now that we're through the gotchas, feel free to test on various types of input and report any issues you have.
Disclaimer: this is a HUGE patch. It modifies dozens of files and likely has a lot of bugs. Problems are normal, and the purpose of this test is to root out as many as possible.Mega-thanks to Mike Gurlitz (ACoolie), Steven Walters (Kemuri9), and Kieran Kunhya (Kierank) for the massive amount of high-quality work that went into this patch.