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Providing precompiled windows version & performance benchmark

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's current build process and command-line entry points. Define how Windows and macOS binaries should be produced, then benchmark the current version against the older losslessh264 version using the linked H.264 samples. Done means reproducible precompiled versions, comparable benchmark results, and documented command-line usage.

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Description

question

Is it possible to add a precompiled versions win windows and mac. (may through https://ci.appveyor.com)

Also add performance benchmark compared to older version (https://github.com/danielrh/losslessh264)
samples to use can be (http://download.openbricks.org/sample/H264/)

Also provide command line on how to use it.

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C++
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