[MPlayer-users] apps to hint files?

[Michael Johnson]

Hi,

   When you hint a file it is normal for the file to
more than double its size so mp4creator is doing its job =)

Cheers,
Michael

On Oct 1, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What are the available options in linux for hinting mp4 files?
>
> I'm using mencoder to encode mpeg4 into avi format, then I use ffmpeg 
> to
> convert from avi to mp4 format. However, the resulting file is not 
> hinted.
>
> One question, does the hinting process cause the file to grow 
> tremendously
> in size?
>
> I've tried both MP4Box and mp4creator in order to hint the files, but 
> have
> had some trouble. Seems MP4Box is taking forever to do whatever it 
> needs to
> do, and when I used mp4creator, the file size increased from 40M to 
> 100M.
>
> So I'm confused.
>
> Does anyone know of another utility I can use in linux to hint mp4 
> files?
>
> Thanks
>
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