I'm trying to use my mp4 files for more than one purpose.

  1. Play on my website within JW Player
  2. Feed my podcast (requires it to be able to play on iPods)

Thus far I have been unsuccessful in finding a way to implement "hinted" streaming in ffmpeg. I've found references to qt-faststart online, but I don't know how to incorporate this (or even if it's possible).

Another issue I'm having is the encoding itself. I'm trying to decrease my filesize and it appears that no matter what settings I try (changing the bitrate, quality, etc.) my files stay the same size.

I've been working on this for two days now with zero results. Does anyone have ideas? I would be so grateful.

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arthurf commented

I believe that you need to run your converted file through flvtool-2. There is a media mover module for this and an API module that I wrote for this as well. Let me know if that helps. I think somebody was able to use flvtool2 as part of a custom command for ffmpeg_wrapper

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merauluka commented

I looked up flvtool and the API, but it appears that these are for FLV files? Also, on the API page, it doesn't appear that I can download the module.

http://drupal.org/project/flvtool2_api

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arthurf commented

Woops, sorry about that. Looking around, it seems like you may need to use mplayer to do the hinting. I'd be willing to integrate mplayer support into ffmpeg wrapper, but maybe it needs its own api

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I am closing this issue, since Drupal 6.x is now not supported.