Ubuntu – Converting .mov files to .mp4 using FFmpeg

ffmpegvideo conversion

The conversion answers that I have seen on the web suggest using a -c option in the command line using FFmpeg. However using Ubuntu 14.04 the -c option does not exist in FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.

Is there a newer version? If so how can I get it. Using apt-get it says that this is the newest version.

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For Ubuntu 16 (and higher?):

ffmpeg -i input.mov -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 output.mp4

I realize the question referred to Ubuntu 14. But since this is the top Google result I got when searching "mov to mp4 ubuntu", I figure it would be worth adding here.

Source: https://mrcoles.com/convert-mov-mp4-ffmpeg/

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Ubuntu – How to use ffmpeg’s “-vf” / “-vfilters” option without recompiling ffmpeg theself

You are right, the ffmpeg packages in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 do not support video filters. If you use Ubuntu 10.10, you can add unofficial packages from the Debian Multimedia Project and install their ffmpeg version (you should not do this if you use Ubuntu 10.04, there are too many conflicts with older packages. Also do not combine those packages with ubuntu-restriced-extras). Then the following works

ffmpeg -i in.avi -vf vflip out.avi

An easier option ̣- if all you want to do is flip videos - is to use the mencoder package instead of ffmpeg. After installing the package, the following works (copying the audio, encoding the video with libavcodecs):

mencoder -vf flip -o out.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc in.avi

Ubuntu – How to convert an mpeg2 to a streamable or fragmented mp4

There is a bug filed with libav about this exact issue. Depressingly, is doesn't seem to be addressed. I think it's best to consider avconv a good encoding tool, but not a good encapsulating tool.

The best way to go about it is to use MP4Box from GPAC. It's a utility which seems to be primarily concerned with encapsulating media streams into mp4 files. It does not do en/de/transcoding, for instance. If you install GPAC on Ubuntu, you can say:

MP4Box -add non-streamable.mp4 new-shiny-streamable.mp4

MP4Box by default makes the mp4 files streamable:

As of version 0.2.4, MP4Box always stores the file with 0.5 second interleaving and meta-data at the begining, making it suitable for HTTP streaming. (source)

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