ffmpeg usage to encode a video to H264 codec format

Question

I have a *.mp4 video file(MPEG4 video codec) and I am trying to convert this to a H264 video codec format(raw h.264 format) using ffmpeg on Linux(Version - FFmpeg version SVN-r0

Answer 1

I believe you have libx264 installed and configured with ffmpeg to convert video to h264... Then you can try with -vcodec libx264... The -format option is for showing available formats, this is not a conversion option I think...