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I am trying to convert a .mov video to .mp4 with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i ~/Desktop/Sample.mov ~/Desktop/Sample.mp4
This doesn't work though, and when I try to open the produced video in quicktime it tells me that the file is either corrupted or in a format quicktime doesn't understand.
How do I get this to work?
theonlygusti
Posted 2016-12-10T19:02:56.790
Reputation: 354
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To convert videos, I like to use hanbrake. You can find it here:https://handbrake.fr/ I use it on Linux but it should work well on MAC too.
For ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i {in-video}.mov -vcodec h264 -acodec aac -strict -2 {out-video}.mp4
For HandBrake:
handbrakecli -i {in-video}.mov -e x264 -E facc -o {out-video}.mp4
answerSeeker
Posted 2016-12-10T19:02:56.790
Reputation: 991
Handbrake worked. The ffmpeg command doesn't. – theonlygusti – 2016-12-12T22:34:05.700
2ffmpeg worked great as above for me – Andy – 2017-03-24T22:16:08.340
1Works great! Thanks! What does the -strict 2 stand for? I couldn't find it in the commands list nor in the full documentation. When trying to run with and without it - couldn't find any difference. – arieljannai – 2017-11-29T19:22:16.553
@arieljannai, I just saw your comment. If you look at the documentations on the ffmpg website, https://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg you will see that it says: -strict strictness How strictly to follow the standards.
Maybe I found another documentation thanks! – arieljannai – 2018-05-05T11:05:59.303
Use handbrake for MAC – answerSeeker – 2016-12-10T19:10:35.660
@TatakaiWasumi I already have it installed. What's the command to convert a video then? – theonlygusti – 2016-12-10T19:17:27.410