How to write bitmaps as frames to H.264 with x264 in C\C++?

Question

How to write bitmaps (RGB) as frames to H.264 with x264 in C\C++?

Some Examples with source would be great!

Answer 1

Here is how:

1. Look at the bitmap spec and work on loading a single bitmap
   
2. Check out the x264.exe source code. That takes YUV uncompressed data as the source.
   
3. Do some search on RGB->YUV conversion.
   
4. Put it all together and modify x264.exe to load your bitmaps, convert them to YUV and pass them to the encoder