How to wrap H264 into a mp4 container?

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mczarnek picture mczarnek · Jan 21, 2014 · Viewed 18.7k times · Source

I have a program generating a bunch of raw H264 frames and would like to place that into a mp4 container for streaming.

Anyone know how to do that?

I was thinking I'd use ffmpeg however, this needs to be used commercially and it seems like ffmpeg can only do this through it's x264 library... which uses a GPL license.

Thank you!

Answer

AJ29 picture AJ29 · Jan 22, 2014

If you're looking for the FFMPEG command line to do that, then try the following:

ffmpeg -i "source.h264" -c:v copy -f mp4 "myOutputFile.mp4"

If you have a separate audio file you can add it too:

ffmpeg -i "source.h264" -i "myAudio" -c:v copy -c:a copy -f mp4 "myOutputFile.mp4"

If your audio needs to be encoded as well (for instance codec AAC-LC, bitrate 256kbps):

ffmpeg -i "source.h264" -i "myAudio" -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 256k -strict -2 -f mp4 "myOutputFile.mp4"

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