Again, my only goal is to make clips that can be played back natively on Apple devices.įfmpeg -ss 42:00 -i /Volumes/MOVIES/ -vcodec hevc_videotoolbox -b:v 6000k -tag:v hvc1 -c:a eac3 -b:a 224k -t 3:00. QuickTime is a family of digital media software for creation, delivery and playback. Any ideas?ĮDIT: Here's *a* solution that *might* Just Work® for any input. Apple QuickTime 7.7.9 Multimedia player and authoring system from Apple. finally.mp4.) WTF? I thought AAC was Apple's *preferred* audio format.Īnyway, there *should* be ONE command-line for ffmpeg that will take any input format and spit out a QuickTime Player *playable* video with audio. I *was* able to make a playable file, but only by first extracting my clip using ffmpeg, then pumping that through VLC's *magic* stream-export (the output of which QuickTimePlayer would play, but without audio) so *then* I had to re-re-convert that file, converting the audio to AC3 (via a relatively simple ffmpeg -i -vcodec copy -acodec AC3. It's a nasty kludge, but it worked on my first test case.Īfter much gnashing and thrashing I figured out that the specs are all spelled out, but I cannot figure out the ffmpeg command line necessary to meet the specs, which are detailed here: Click the Free Download or Download Now options. Edit: See last line for possible solution. Go to the Apple website and navigate to the QuickTime download page (see Resources).

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