Saiweb » qt-faststart http://www.saiweb.co.uk Ramblings of a Sys admin Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:57:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ffmpeg MP4 does not stream qt-faststart http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:14:44 +0000 Buzz http://www.saiweb.co.uk/linux/ffmpeg-mp4-does-not-stream-qt-faststart ffmpeg comes with a tool to re-order the MP4 “atoms” (Seriously don’t ask what are MP4 atoms it’s geek for the sake of geek).

find the file in ffmpeg_src/tools/qt-faststart.c

compile with gcc

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gcc qt-faststart.c -o qt-faststart

And run.

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/path/to/qt-faststart /path/to/src_vid.mp4 /path/to/output.mp4

NOTE: This only seems to work for h264 encoded videos (libx264).

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