
I tried compiling ffmpeg with the option -enable-encoders=libx264 and it will give no error but it won't enable anything (I can't seem to find where I found that suggestion).Īnyways step-by-step, first you must compile libx264 yourself because repository version is outdated: wget Īnd then get and compile ffmpeg with libx264 enabled. I believe that by now the above answers are outdated (or at least unclear) so here's my little go at it.
#CONVERT MOV TO MPEG4 HOW TO#
How to use the ffmpeg options -vcodec and -formats? Type convert to in the search box and choose from the 147 available. When I do ffmpeg -formats, I see many acronyms for the codecs supported, I see many acronyms before the codec name/type such as - D V D S E A, what do they stand for? Right click on one or more Mov Videos on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar. How can I convert the video to a H264 encoded video (raw H264 video format) When I checked the help, ffmpeg -formats, I see below information related to H264 file format and codec: File format :ĭ V D h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16Īnd then it prints out help on the formats which we get when we do ffmpeg -formats Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 59.94 tbc To convert MOV to MP4, Right-click on MOV file and select open with Photos the video will open, on the right-up corner click 'Edit and Create' and select 'Trim', after that click 'Save As' to save it where you want and you can see the file MOV is converted to MP4. It still does not work, and gives - Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.94 (5994/100) -> 29.97 (30000/1001)


Then when i try this option: ffmpeg -i input. STEP 2 Choose the MPEG format from the drop-down list as the output format, and click the Convert button, you can convert up to 5 files at the same time and a maximum size of up to 500 MB.
#CONVERT MOV TO MPEG4 MP4#
mp4 output.h264īut I get an error saying - Unsupported codec for output stream #0.0 Select the video file in the MOV format to convert to the MPEG format, you can select a file from your computer or your Google Drive or Dropbox account. I have a *.mp4 video file(MPEG4 video codec) and I am trying to convert this to a H264 video codec format(raw h.264 format) using ffmpeg on Linux(Version - FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard,) using command line as shown below, ffmpeg -i input.
