The x264.exe file is associated with the MediaCoder, a universal media transcoder program, which is developed in the year 2005. This software, that consists of the x264.exe file, integrates codecs of audio and video, as well as other related tools, to provide a transcoding solution, and all codecs are regularly updated. Considered as the major component of the program, x264.exe must not be deleted. Otherwise, the program MediaCoder is not going to work, since its functions include the conversion between audio and video formats, enhancement of audio and video contents, the multi-threaded design and job level parallelization, and others. Moreover, MediaCoder can support a variety of formats, which include lossy audio compression formats (MP3, MPEG, AMR, Windows Media Audio, and MP3PRO), lossless audio compression formats (FLAC and WavPack), video compression formats (DivX, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG4, MJPEG, RealVideo, Windows Media Video and Flash Video), container formats (MP4, AVI, MPEG-PS, MOV, RealMedia, and FLV), as well as storage media and streaming (input).

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. x264.exe. is used by MediaCoder, If you shut down x264.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop x264.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is MediaCoder, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed x264.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as MediaCoder, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if x264.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that x264.exe, belongs to, in this case MediaCoder