Is x264 a codec or encoder or converter or format or what?

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Stop insulting people for supposedly not understanding them, will you ? For example we do just right, problem is on your side here. We learn to speak and talk for years, and we do not have that time to learn and master one line command encoder, that I was trying to say, I completely ignored that first insult of yours at first.

Thanks for explaining this time, because that was certainly not clear before. The truth is that I rarely understand your meaning when I read one of your posts, and I doubt that I am the only one who has difficulty. This is an honest appraisal from a native speaker of the English language. Accept it and move on.

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(hech54 apparently still thinks it is not software.)

Not exactly true. I just don't buy the "everything is software" argument.

Not everything stored on your hard drive is software. Some things are data. ...but deadrats's explanation is consistent with what I was taught in a university setting. If you have a different idea, then it is at odds with the formal definition of the word "software" as a computer scientist understands it.

It's an easy way out like the "it's made of molecules" statement I made that you completely ignored.

Since you insist on a reply, that was flippant remark which deserved to be ignored.