[FFmpeg-user] fragmented mp4 and playing while converting

[Julien Dotsev]

Hi Dennis,
Thank you for your reply. I tried your command:

ffmpeg -re -i input.avi -movflags
+faststart  output.mp4

but like this I can not open at all the file during the conversion.

Any suggestions?

Julian

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 1:00 PM Dennis Mungai <dmngaie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 2021 at 04:54, Julien Dotsev <j.docev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm looking for a possibility to play the output file during the
> > conversion. I tried with fragmented mp4 and this command:
> > ffmpeg -i input.avi -movflags
> > +frag_keyframe+separate_moof+omit_tfhd_offset+empty_moov output.mp4
> >
> > The problem I have is that when I play the output it plays until the
> > momentary time duration of the video. For example If I hit play and I
> have
> > 2 min converted video at that moment it will play just the 2 minutes and
> it
> > will not play more even if at the end of that 2 minutes all the video is
> > converted.
> >
> > Is there any way to let the video play all the way during its conversion?
> > Maybe some way  to insert the real time duration of the video? or maybe
> > another video format? Anything that can let me play the video in an html
> > <video> tag during its conversion.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
>
> Try this:
>
> ffmpeg -re -i input.avi -movflags
> +faststart  output.mp4
>
> That will encode the file in real time, allowing for real time playback.
>
> The other movfpags are useless unless you’re writing fragmented content,
> such as fmp4 for HLS or DASH. The faststart movflag is sufficient.
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