Comments on: ffmpeg MP4 does not stream qt-faststart http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart Ramblings of a Sys admin Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: p2c http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart/comment-page-1#comment-680 p2c Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:47:53 +0000 http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart#comment-680 I compiled it via GCC and it ended up crashing my server or it just did nothing that way installing it via make tools/qt-faststart did the trick ^^ I compiled it via GCC and it ended up crashing my server or it just did nothing that way
installing it via
make tools/qt-faststart
did the trick ^^

]]> By: Buzz http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart/comment-page-1#comment-595 Buzz Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:59:32 +0000 http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart#comment-595 Thanks for that Stephen, I will certainly check this out once I get my new server online :-) Cheers Buzz Thanks for that Stephen, I will certainly check this out once I get my new server online :-)

Cheers

Buzz

]]> By: Stephen Dewey http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart/comment-page-1#comment-594 Stephen Dewey Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:53:16 +0000 http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart#comment-594 Actually, you should probably use make to compile this, rather than invoking gcc directly. Here is the header from qt-faststart.c : /* * qt-faststart.c, v0.1 * by Mike Melanson (melanson@pcisys.net) * This file is placed in the public domain. Use the program however you * see fit. * * This utility rearranges a Quicktime file such that the moov atom * is in front of the data, thus facilitating network streaming. * * To compile this program, start from the base directory from which you * are building FFmpeg and type: * make tools/qt-faststart * The qt-faststart program will be built in the tools/ directory. If you * do not build the program in this manner, correct results are not * guaranteed, particularly on 64-bit platforms. * Invoke the program with: * qt-faststart * * Notes: Quicktime files can come in many configurations of top-level * atoms. This utility stipulates that the very last atom in the file needs * to be a moov atom. When given such a file, this utility will rearrange * the top-level atoms by shifting the moov atom from the back of the file * to the front, and patch the chunk offsets along the way. This utility * presently only operates on uncompressed moov atoms. */ Actually, you should probably use make to compile this, rather than invoking gcc directly. Here is the header from qt-faststart.c :

/*
* qt-faststart.c, v0.1
* by Mike Melanson (melanson@pcisys.net)
* This file is placed in the public domain. Use the program however you
* see fit.
*
* This utility rearranges a Quicktime file such that the moov atom
* is in front of the data, thus facilitating network streaming.
*
* To compile this program, start from the base directory from which you
* are building FFmpeg and type:
* make tools/qt-faststart
* The qt-faststart program will be built in the tools/ directory. If you
* do not build the program in this manner, correct results are not
* guaranteed, particularly on 64-bit platforms.
* Invoke the program with:
* qt-faststart
*
* Notes: Quicktime files can come in many configurations of top-level
* atoms. This utility stipulates that the very last atom in the file needs
* to be a moov atom. When given such a file, this utility will rearrange
* the top-level atoms by shifting the moov atom from the back of the file
* to the front, and patch the chunk offsets along the way. This utility
* presently only operates on uncompressed moov atoms.
*/

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