Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > As the person who mentioned flattening to Andy, all I can say is > that common usage at youtube refers to it. And, despite the > implication that it is only to improve the user experience, it is > necessary to use it to successfully upload .mov file

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > So what should we have on the page? At the moment it says: > > If you upload certain formats (quicktime, mov or mp4) to youtube, you > need to "flatten" them (move the index to the front of the file) before > uploading. FFmpeg contains a tool cal

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:10:05 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Nathan's email reminded me that there's also a dubious statement on the > current ffmpeg page. The page references using qt-faststart to 'flatten' > files by moving the index to the front of the file. > > Indeed, qt-faststart does mov

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:10:05PM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Nathan's email reminded me that there's also a dubious statement on the > current ffmpeg page. The page references using qt-faststart to 'flatten' > files by moving the index to the front of the file. > > Indeed, qt-faststart doe

[blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-20 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Nathan's email reminded me that there's also a dubious statement on the current ffmpeg page. The page references using qt-faststart to 'flatten' files by moving the index to the front of the file. Indeed, qt-faststart does move the moov atom (which contains metadata about the video) to the fron

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick

2011-12-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:25:30 -0800 Nathan Coulson wrote: > Just noticed it references yasm, but does not point to the BLFS page > My fault. Yasm wasn't in the book when I did the ffmpeg page. I'll fix it now. Thanks for the heads up. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-de

[blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick

2011-12-20 Thread Nathan Coulson
Just noticed it references yasm, but does not point to the BLFS page -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) -- Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/