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ncmpcpp vs x264

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

ncmpcpp

ncmpcpp

Audio & Music

ncmpcpp is a mpd client (Music Player Daemon) inspired by ncmpc with a tag editor, bookmarks, playlists, and more. It's designed to be fast, lightweight, customizable, and easy to use for casual music library browsing or intensive audio playback.

mpdclimusic-playerplaylistaudio
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.

h264mpeg4avcvideo-encodingopen-source

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