Comment 5 for bug 1241772

@Doug: x264 can't be updated without recompiling or even updating libav as well, AFAIK.

I've added a patched version of x264 to my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~maarten-baert/+archive/simplescreenrecorder
Normally I wouldn't mess with official packages, but since the official one is completely broken, I can't possibly make it worse, right? :) It's the original package from Ubuntu with the upstream patch applied to it.

For those who want to try it (at your own risk):

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade