F4V Muxing

[lucassp]

Hey guys!

I'm trying to do some H264/AVC playback over the internet. I have to use the Flash Video Player Component included in Flash CS3. If I encode the content using Avidemux and Handbrake (using x264), the player buffers the entire file and after that it begins the playback. If I use the Flash CS4 Media Encoder the playback starts after only a few seconds of buffering.

If this is related to the F4V container, is there a way to mux my content so that it will playback fine?

If this is related to the encode settings, please tell me what settings to use or point me to some info.


Thank you very much!

[Ritsuka]

F4V is just a mp4 with a different extension. You need to "optimize" the mp4 (moving the index the the beginning of the file instead of the end) if you want it yo be played immediately. You can do in HandBrake by checking the Web Optimized checkbox, of use an utility to do so, like mp4creator, ffmpeg qt-faststart.c or else.