Today, I converted some MOV (Quicktime) files from the railscasts.com webcast site to mp4, which my Neuros OSD can read.

I couldn’t do this with ffmpeg from debian stable, because it doesn’t have the aac codec. I did it with ffmpeg from http://debian-multimedia.org/

I used:

gimli-[/ssw/cadillac/movies/railscasts] mcr 1075 %ffmpeg -i 004_move_find_into_model.mov 004_move_find_into_model.mp4 FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=${prefix}/lib --shlibdir=${prefix}/lib --incdir=${prefix}/include/ffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libfaad --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid --enable-libdts --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pp --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-x264 --enable-liba52 --enable-libtheora --extra-cflags=-Wall -g -fPIC -DPIC --cc=ccache cc --enable-swscaler libavutil version: 49.4.0 libavcodec version: 51.40.2 libavformat version: 51.11.0 built on Feb 4 2008 14:45:57, gcc: 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '004_move_find_into_model.mov': Duration: 00:02:02.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 328 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo Stream #0.1(eng): Video: qtrle, rgb24, 800x600, 29.97 fps(r) File '004_move_find_into_model.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y Output #0, mp4, to '004_move_find_into_model.mp4': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 800x600, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c) Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, 64 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.1 -> #0.0 Stream #0.0 -> #0.1