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I need to convert quicktime (.mov) video file recorded by iphone, into mp4 format using ffmpeg in php.
I tried several commands but it did not work for me.
I tried following command that converted into .mp4 but just audio was there. No video was playing.
exec("ffmpeg -i input.mov out.mp4");
Any help in this case will be appreciated.
Thanks
I'm new to ffmpeg, but if you want the codecs to remain the same and the data wrapped in mp4 instead of mov, I believe the following will work:
ffmpeg -i video.mov -c copy video.mp4
The command you posted may have worked just fine, but your computer is having trouble playing the video data. This is almost always a codec issue.
You can compare the data in the mov input with the mp4 output using ffprobe. Compare the output of the commands ffprobe video.mov and ffprobe video.mp4. If the above command works as expected, then the data should read the same under the codecs. Only the container related data should be different.
MP4 file format is based on QuickTime file format. Usually, renaming the file suffix to .mp4 just works.
The spec are here
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2. But QT allows lot more codecs than the official MP4 format, So a player coded as per the spec to vet streams will refuse to play a MP4 with e.g. PCM audio or just won't play the audio, just like ffmpeg won't create such a MP4. But nothing technical prevents PCM in MP4. Sony's cameras produce such MP4s. ----------- TL;DR difference between MP4 and MOV is administrative rather than technical. The viability of renaming MP4/MOV depends on the app the file is to be used in.