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Reputation: 523

ffmpeg mov to mp4 plays fine on linux no video on windows

I am using the cmd ffmpeg -i MAG.mov -c:a aac -strict -2 MAG.mp4

On my linux box playback video & audio is fine. On Windows there is audio only. Any idea how to fix?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2214

Answers (1)

Harry
Harry

Reputation: 1263

Actually your question should be more like "why is the player x on my operating system y not able to play the file".

On the other hand you tagged the question "ffmpeg", so here comes the ffmpeg related answer:

ffmpeg -i MAG.mov -c:a aac -strict -2 MAG.mp4

You do not specify most possible base parameters in this command, so ffmpeg copies whatever can be copied to the output format (except the codec, this will be decided based on the extension).

Interpolating the little information you gave us i have to assume that you used windows "media player" on a windows 7 box without addtional directshow codecs installed. If it was like this, the answer would be like "please install a h264 compatible directshow decoder and some mp4 demuxing directshow filter on your box.

If you want to guarantee the playback on windows, you best just force your output to be wmv: ffmpeg -i MAG.mov -strict -2 MAG.wmv

Upvotes: 1

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