h.264 plugin isn't a standard part of linphone installation on ubuntu. We must manually compile and install it.
1. Download msx264 plugin source code.
2. Run
sudo apt-get install libmediastreamer-dev libx264-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev libtheora-dev to meet msx264's dependency requirements.
3. Run
./configure --prefix=/usr/lib. It's mandatory to set prefix to /usr/lib, because linphone can't find the plugin if it's installed in default location,
/usr/local/lib.
4. Run
sudo make install.
5. Change the line 393 in src/msx264.c from
393 if (sws_scale(s->sws_ctx,(uint8_t * const*)orig->data,orig->linesize, 0,
to
393 if (sws_scale(s->sws_ctx,(uint8_t **)orig->data,orig->linesize, 0,
to get rid of compilation error, if you have.
6. Restart linphone, the h.264 plugin should be available now.