[MPlayer-users] Creating mp4-files for Apples' ipod with MPlayer

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 16 December 2005 at 01:14, Michael Scholz wrote:
> Wow! Just a couple of hours ago and so many helpful answers! Thanks to all 
> who replied!!!
> 
> Okay. So, let me sum this up a bit to see if I got the point.
> 
> First, mp4 is a container file, Apple-proprietary. Well, I must admit I 
> really took this for a statement about the codec that was used to produce 
> the stream. Seems I was wrong.

Not quite so. AFAIK this container is part of the MPEG-4 standard, and
it's a modified Apple QuickTime container.

> Second, Mplayer is basically able to do that job but cannot produce a 100% 
> stream/container that identifies properly to Apple software.

Container, yes. Stream, no. AFAIK you can compress the video using -ovc
x264 and then remux to mp4 container using mp4box, though I haven't done
this myself.

R.

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