3 engineers on Hacker News describe using x264 first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“When we switched from x264 to hardware based encoders it saved something like 90% on our customers' power and cooling bills.”
regret · production · yaur · 2026-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally prefer to do that by having a multicore encoder and let x264 apply as much look ahead and calculation as it can”
endorse · personal · Terretta · 2013-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Running an autonomous pipeline for eight months... "x264: malloc of size N failed / incorrect parameters" — I read it as a codec or bad-args bug”
neutral · production · 0.67 yr · IgorVoytyuk · 2026-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?