[MPlayer-users] Best quality universal format?...

[Paul Simpson]

Hey Steven,

I can't thank you enough for your answer.  I'll be trying this right 
away.  I've got half the tools allready from my early tests.  I'm 
downloading the rest right now...

Regards,

Paul


Steven M. Schultz wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Paul Simpson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hmmm - I'm pretty sure that the PC people will have quicktime  installed.
>>    
>>
>
>	Not really - at least not by default.   I sent a .mp4 file to a 
>	windoze user and they weren't able to play it.  Rather than  talk 'em
>	thru getting Quicktime+MPEG-4/whatever loaded/working I sent a 
>	MPEG-1 version that played without trouble.
>
>  
>
>>Does that make it easier?  Is there a way to author a MPEG4 
>>quicktime movie on linux?
>>    
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>
>	Of course - I've done it.   All you need is the .m4v file (not the
>	.avi format that comes out of mencoder) and the audio file.  I use
>	'mp4creator' (one of the utilities from the mpeg4ip project at
>	http://mpeg4ip.sf.net thus:
>
>mp4creator -c rhrh.m4v -rate=29.970 -H rhrh.mp4
>mp4creator -c rhrh.aac -H -O rhrh.mp4
>
>	Leave out the -H to save a little space used by the streaming hint
>	track.
>
>	The resulting file plays fine with Apple's quicktime player IF
>	the userdata header is left out of the m4v stream (use the new
>	lavcopts option "bit_exact" to suppress the userdata header which 
>	appears to confound QT Player).
>
>	To extract the raw .m4v stream from a .avi file produced by mencoder
>	I use 'avi2raw' (another utility from mpeg4ip).  If you're using
>	ffmpeg directly to do the encoding there's a way (the exact options
>	I forget at the moment) to have it produce a .m4v file directly.
>
>	For maximum interchange compatibility I author a DVD and send 'em a
>	disc ;)
>
>	Cheers,
>	Steven Schultz
>
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