[FFmpeg-user] Streaming MP4

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 05/30/2011 06:33 PM, JULIAN GARDNER wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has managed to get ffmpeg to stream out MP4 video/audio.
> 
> I have a working system using mpeg-ts and h264/aac and i now need to dual send some channels in MP4 as well, but when i change the output format to mp4 i get
> 
> "could not write header for output file #0"
> 
> Anybody have any ideas to why this does not work or a way of getting it to work.

MP4 is not a "streamable" format by essence. There are features that can
make it streamable, the muxer don't support them currently.

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