x265 refers to one of the latest open source video codec used for encoding videos. It is available as free software. The x265 encoder uses the latest x265 codec based on the HEVC High Efficiency Video Coding or H.265 standard. The main objective of H.265/x265 is to improve video quality by doubling the data compression ratio of the previous standard known as H.264/x264 encoding standard. Even if the actual browsers and mobile devices do not really support it yet, it's very interesting for our computers, or even to store videos on our personal clouds/NAS...

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This article provide you a walk through to compile ffmpeg/FLVTool2/Yamdi from source files on CentOS 6.
Most Linux distributions have outdated packages in their repositories so compiling those software is the best solution to have the latest updates, bug fixes and features.