[Ffmpeg-devel] libavformat: mov writer appends headers rather than prepends

[Bill May]

Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Unlike Apple's QuickTime, Nokia's 3GP encoder etc., the MOV encoder in
> ffmpeg places the headers necessary for seeking and video information at
> the end of the file rather than at the beginning, that way making the
> produced files less suitable for streaming. Also, I suspect that this
> fact causes 3gp files produced with ffmpeg not to play on my Nokia 6230i
> phone. I'm not sure of the later conclusion, but when comparing files
> produced by Nokia or QuickTime with ffmpeg's files, ffmpeg's difference
> seems to be in the header ordering.

If you want to do an experiment, you can use mpeg4ip's mp4creator command
and use the --optimize parameter; this should move everything to where
you want it.

Bill May