Stronghold X264 Official

The story begins with Elias, a university sysadmin who spent his nights obsessing over bitrate and macroblocks. While the rest of the world settled for grainy, blocky AVI files, Elias and a handful of anonymous contributors were perfecting a new weapon: the . They operated under the moniker "x264," a project dedicated to squeezing cinema-quality video into files small enough to traverse the dial-up and early broadband lines of the era. The Stronghold