Showing posts with label ffmpeg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ffmpeg. Show all posts

August 1, 2013

Fast-Start Enabled Videos with FFMpeg

MPEG 4 is the most dominant video format for the web, which is supported on a variety of platforms and devices. And FFmpeg is the most popular software for encoding videos. While there are tons of articles about encoding MPEG 4 videos with FFmpeg, most of them fail to warn you about something: most video players will not start the playback until the whole video is downloaded. This could be annoying, especially for large videos.