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Old 12th June 2019, 00:03   #1  |  Link
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Why did x264 binaries become so large?

I needed to download x264 for game encoding, so I went to the following page to get the binary:

https://download.videolan.org/pub/x264/binaries/win32/

I noticed that before 2017 the size of the binary was small, around 3 or 4 MB, but since 2017 the size become larger,
around 19 to 20 MB.

Why did x264 binary become so large?
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I think because it includes a large collection of splitters and decoders.
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Yes. Run with --help and see that VideoLan's newer binaries are compiled with lavf input.
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I needed to download x264 for game encoding, so I went to the following page to get the binary:

https://download.videolan.org/pub/x264/binaries/win32/

I noticed that before 2017 the size of the binary was small, around 3 or 4 MB, but since 2017 the size become larger,
around 19 to 20 MB.

Why did x264 binary become so large?
You can also use UPX to shrink size down to ~8MiB.
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