FFmpeg and x264 in Ubuntu

In my last post I have explained how to use MeGUI to convert videos from one format to another. Sadly MeGUI for Linux is not available. We can install ffmpeg from Synaptic Package Manager but the resulting ffmpeg does not support x264. If we need ffmpeg with x264 support then we need to manually compile ffmpeg from its source code.

Using MeGUI to encode videos in x264

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. You can use x264 compression method to drastically reduce the size of video files without loss of quality. Here I will explain how to use ffmpeg to convert videos in  Windows .