[MEncoder-users] avi h264 to mp4 (without transcoding)

[Andrew Berg]

On 2011.07.24 07:46 PM, Phil Sturges wrote:
> Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 <at> gmail.com> 
>> I doubt you need to demux the audio before converting it. You can put
>> the audio in a container during the conversion too.
> According to the mp4box documentation direct importing of h264 in avi
> containers is not supported. That has been my experience also.  Is your
> suggestion here to create a file video.m4a instead of video.aac?
The video needs to be demuxed to a raw stream, but the audio doesn't.
You can feed the AVI to FFmpeg and have it output AAC to an MP4
container (video.m4a).

> This works great for my purposes, so
> whether or not or how it is supported doesn't matter too much to me as
>  long as I can get to work, and at this stage it "works", 
> just having audio sync issues.
I suppose if it works, it's not really an issue. I find it surprising
that a hardware player supports it, though.