Adding qt-faststart to quicktime videos

square_candy

Joined: 2008-09-07
Posts: 9
Posted: Wed, 2008-10-29 03:34

Hey All -

I'm having great luck using gallery with lots of different video formats. Thanks!!

Currently all quicktime movies (.mov, .mp4, etc) download the full file before they will start to play. After a little research I found this ffmpeg command: qt-faststart.

http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/tools/qt-faststart.c?view=markup

http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ismail/ffmpeg-docs/qt-faststart_8c-source.html

Any idea where I should start to try and integrate this so that my mp4 and mov files will start to play before the full file is downloaded?

Cheers!

- P