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Using ffmpeg to convert to .mov with h264 encoding.

I am attempting to convert an existing .mov file to one that uses h.264 encoding for the video with ffmpeg. The following command line gets ffmpeg to execute.

Code:

ffmpeg -i /media/Lexar/Team_957.mov -vcodec libx264 -vpre medium ~/team957.mov

However, when I use mplayer to play team957.mov, I get:

Code:

MPlayer SVN-r29796-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team



Playing /home/ryan/team957.mov.

libavformat file format detected.

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x9d485f0]moov atom not found

LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed

ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime

MOV: missing header (moov/cmov) chunk! Maybe broken file...

Seek failed

libavformat file format detected.

LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed





Exiting... (End of file)

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: I've gotten the conversion to work (it has to finish entirely before the file is readable), but now it has Lavf52.64.2 as the "muxer" (according to mplayer). How can I get rid of this?

EDIT2: Hmm... I think the issue is that Quicktime can't read lossless files. Problem solved (hopefully.)

Hello,

You marked your thread as solved, mentioning what you did, thanks for that. Did you however get an answer to your last question? If so, would you mind sharing that with us?

Kind regards,

Eric

Sorry... I was slow to edit my post.

I haven't verified this yet, but I don't think Quicktime could open the file I had created because it was lossless (I tried the one with "-vpre medium" with mplayer, but a lossless one with quicktime). I'm still working on this.

Sorry for the extraneous topic -- I usually don't ask questions I know I can answer, but I'm on a time limit right now, so I thought it was worth it to try.

Hello,

No problem at all :) Thank you for the update.

Kind regards,

Eric