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GitHub Flavored Markdown vs x264

A side-by-side look at GitHub Flavored Markdown and x264. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GitHub Flavored Markdown

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Development

GitHub Flavored Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to format text on GitHub. It builds upon standard Markdown by adding some additional elements like tables, syntax highlighting, emoji support, and more.

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x264

x264

Video & Movies

x264 is an open source software library for encoding H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video streams. It is free, fast, and produces high quality H.264 video while maintaining good compression. x264 is used in many applications from web streaming to Blu-Ray encoding.

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