It would be really good to get a proper solution to this. I currently require 8 bit and 10bit of x264 to be available to the same application at the same time.
A typical use case would be simultaneously encoding 10bit 4:2:2 and 8 bit 4:2:0 versions of the same source video, this cannot be achieved with linkage to a single x264 library. [Alternatively an application that can encode in either 8 or 10 bit modes is equally difficult to write] I have resorted to building my own custom .deb for the 10 bit version which installs to /usr/x264-10bit/... then a plug-in architecture and dlopen() allow one executable to dynamically link against both the 8 and 10bit versions and keep both sets of symbols isolated from each other. This is all fairly horrible, but works.... I don't see the 8 or 10 bit versions as been "alternatives" (overloaded terminology, sorry!), I need them to be able to co-exist. Anyway, just some input to help define what might be useful for a 10bit x264 package. Jonathan Rosser Lead Research Engineer BBC Research & Development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
