Adding Internet Streaming To FFmpeg Outputs

Just a quick post. After deciding that FFmpeg was my video compressor of choice, I ran into a small problem. The videos that are outputted don’t begin playing immediately when embedded in a web page. This is a pretty big setback.

Luckily there is a small AIR application that can solve the problem for us. QTIndexSwapper is a small application that prepares .h264 encoded video for internet streaming. It does this by rearranging the index file. It’s simple and fast, and from what I’ve seen so far, adds no quality loss to your video.

So if you’ve tried the code I posted for compressing video with FFmpeg, but have had trouble streaming them on the web, try this application.

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