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[Avisynth_challenged]

I'm interested in using x.264 to make Blu-ray compliant H.264 HD encodes. My question: is there a WinXP (32-bit) GUI front-end for x.264 which does not require .NET framework to be installed on the system?

Thanks in advance

[poisondeathray]

I think most of them require .net - megui, handbrake, staxrip, ripbot, xvid4psp etc....

Maybe Lord Mulder's GUI might not , but it's very minimalistic / no frills, yet effective
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144140

[Brazil2]

Originally Posted by Avisynth_challenged

is there a WinXP (32-bit) GUI front-end for x.264 which does not require .NET framework to be installed on the system?

MicroX264

Hybrid

Avidemux
Which is not really a front end for x264 but with Lord Mulder's libx264 builds that you can find at the end of this thread, you can use the most up to date version of x264.

[Guest]

Due to the lameness of the thread title (which could get a rule 9 strike), I've moved this to Newbies.

[Avisynth_challenged]

Originally Posted by neuron2

Due to the lameness of the thread title (which could get a rule 9 strike), I've moved this to Newbies.

Sorry and thanks.

[stax76]

.NET has become the most popular development platform on Windows so why not install it? There are client profile versions of the .NET framework that aren't very big so it don't take much time to download and install them. I think all Gnome based Linux distributions include .NET and .NET based applications like newer Windows versions so it's popular even on other operating systems.

For .NET many use Win 7 which has .NET 3.5 onboard, Vista has 3.0 onboard which is sufficient for many older .NET aplications, XP don't has .NET, I think both XP and .NET were released somewhere 2001. Some applications use .NET 4.0 and I think authors of such applications should be asked not to use it but rather use 3.5 so at least on Win 7 it will run without having to install a new framework.

There are many .NET and Java dependencies but generally much more .NET then Java, some smaller Java applications could be ported to .NET but for most it's not a issue to install Java, I usually install the OpenOffice version that includes Java so I will always have Java installed.

[Gser]

Get .NET or forget about GUIs.

[stax76]

If you don't want to build a commercial application but just run some free applications it's pretty pointless to think about platforms and runtimes instead of just looking on the quality of a application, there are high quality applications built with all kind of different tools.