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I have an .avi file containing the following streams:

Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile), yuv420p, 608x256 [PAR 1:1 DAR 19:8], 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc

Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p, 128 kb/s

I want to play this movie on an Iphone supposed to support mpeg4 video streams as stated in a previous question here. For now, I don't care about the audio stream (mp3 doesn't seem to be supported by the Iphone)

As a consequence I am looking for a way to just convert the "container" format of my file from .avi to .mp4 required by the Iphone. Is it doable, and if yes how should I do that ?

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Probably should add the way to do that with avconv as well:

avconv -i input.avi -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4

If you are compiling libav from source to do that, you need to make sure that you have enabled mp4 muxer. You can do that with

./configure [your other options] --enable-muxer=mp4

It normally is enabled by default anyhow, but i'm providing it here in case you are using --disable-everything or --disable-muxers somewhere in the regular options.

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Using ffmpeg, it is easy to only change the container format, and only stream copy (re-mux) the all its streams without reencoding:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -map 0 -codec copy output.mov

If you specify the .mov extension, you can omit -f mov, because ffmpeg guesses it from the extension. If you really want to remove some streams, check the -map option and read about the default stream selection.

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You can always use mencoder

Read more here: Encoding video for iPhone with mencoder

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  • at least could you make the effort to explain why you downvote my answer? this is something which have been explained in details already in the linked article ...
    – Gipsz Jakab
    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:26
  • Op did not insisted on "avoid resampling/re-encoding" Want to change format, so the iPhone will play it. Well, not every container format / stream encodings can work. If you want to get something working, you must match the required format and encodings ...
    – Gipsz Jakab
    May 31, 2021 at 9:10
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This is what I use:

ffmpeg -y -i %INFILE% -vcodec mpeg4 -r 65535/2733 -vb 600k -acodec libvo_aacenc -ac 1 -ab 94000 -ar 16000 -s 480x320 %OUTFILE%.new.mp4

It's taken from a DOS batch script so you may need to update the variables a little.

The screen resolution is optimised for my phone so my may need to change that as well. Or you can just leave it out.

The -vb is the video bitrate. I don't need superfast video so I often scale it down to this value. Again, you can leave this out if you wish.

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  • -1 - the OP implied he wanted to avoid resampling/re-encoding.
    – ostergaard
    Nov 15, 2014 at 12:05
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ffmpeg -i input.avi -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -level 3.0 -c:a copy output.mp4

This re-encodes your video with h.264, but it should work on all iphones.

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  • -1 - the OP implied he wanted to avoid resampling/re-encoding.
    – ostergaard
    Nov 15, 2014 at 12:06

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