[FFmpeg-user] Convert iPhone MOV to Android MP4

[Richard Duran]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:

> A quick check found this:
> https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-
> formats.html#audio-formats
> which seems to indicate that, on Android, the only format which can
> carry PCM audio is WAV. The only other supported lossless audio codec
> seems to be FLAC, but that is only supported in actual FLAC files. So
> it looks like you need to use a lossy codec.
>
> Cool. Thanks for the research.

Not a big deal to use a lossy codec. My primary goal was to be able to play
the videos natively. Retaining as much of the source data as possible was a
secondary goal.