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authorDerek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>2013-10-02 14:46:26 +0000
committerDerek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>2014-02-12 13:12:22 +0000
commitbb6b1731eba2fac424ff8ad3003fe58b308debd1 (patch)
tree8f350385c939c7d284d314398e62a0d18499936c /doc/general.texi
parentb6c0f07d5a11eea3df291eff4e0deae903b094bd (diff)
downloadffmpeg-bb6b1731eba2fac424ff8ad3003fe58b308debd1.tar.gz
Add libx265 encoder
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi
index 359ac46766..079b3ff9d2 100644
--- a/doc/general.texi
+++ b/doc/general.texi
@@ -122,6 +122,20 @@ x264 is under the GNU Public License Version 2 or later
details), you must upgrade FFmpeg's license to GPL in order to use it.
@end float
+@section x265
+
+FFmpeg can make use of the x265 library for HEVC encoding.
+
+Go to @url{http://x265.org/developers.html} and follow the instructions
+for installing the library. Then pass @code{--enable-libx265} to configure
+to enable it.
+
+@float note
+x265 is under the GNU Public License Version 2 or later
+(see @url{http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html} for
+details), you must upgrade FFmpeg's license to GPL in order to use it.
+@end float
+
@section libilbc
iLBC is a narrowband speech codec that has been made freely available
@@ -342,7 +356,7 @@ library:
@item raw H.261 @tab X @tab X
@item raw H.263 @tab X @tab X
@item raw H.264 @tab X @tab X
-@item raw HEVC @tab @tab X
+@item raw HEVC @tab X @tab X
@item raw Ingenient MJPEG @tab @tab X
@item raw MJPEG @tab X @tab X
@item raw MLP @tab @tab X
@@ -612,7 +626,8 @@ following image formats are supported:
@item H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2 @tab X @tab X
@item H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 @tab E @tab X
@tab encoding supported through external library libx264
-@item HEVC @tab @tab X
+@item HEVC @tab X @tab X
+ @tab encoding supported through the external library libx265
@item HNM version 4 @tab @tab X
@item HuffYUV @tab X @tab X
@item HuffYUV FFmpeg variant @tab X @tab X