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x265 - x265 HEVC encoder / H.265 video codec ChangeLog

Web site:	http://x265.org/
Repository:	https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src

HOWTO

# x265 3.0
# ========
# Prerequisites:
# CMake
# nasm

# Alternate download URL:
# http://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x265/x265_3.0.tar.gz">http://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x265/x265_3.0.tar.gz

# Get it
cd
test -f installed/x265_3.0.tar.gz && mv -f installed/x265_3.0.tar.gz .
test ! -f x265_3.0.tar.gz &&
wget https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_3.0.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "8ff1780246bb7ac8506239f6129c04ec  x265_3.0.tar.gz" | md5sum -c

# Extract it
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -type d -maxdepth 1 -type d  -name "x265_*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/x265_3.0.tar.gz
cd x265_3.0
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Read ./readme.rst
# Online documentation

# Configure the build
cd build
cmake ../source

# If 64-bit, adjust CMake install script
test $(uname -m) = 'x86_64' &&
( cp -a cmake_install.cmake cmake_install.cmake.orig
   cat cmake_install.cmake.orig |
    sed -e 's|/lib/|/lib64/|' -e 's|/lib"|/lib64"|' > cmake_install.cmake )

# Build it
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Install it
make install
ldconfig

# Become your non-root user again
exit

# Save the source for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/x265_*.tar.*
mv -f x265_3.0.tar.gz installed/