qtfaststart is a Python module to enable streaming and pseudo-streaming of Quicktime and MP4 files by moving metadata and offset information to the front of the file.
This program is based on qt-faststart.c from the ffmpeg project, which is released into the public domain, as well as ISO 14496-12:2005 (the official spec for MP4), which can be obtained from the ISO or found online.
The goals of this project are to run anywhere without compilation (in particular, many Windows and Mac OS X users have trouble getting qt-faststart.c compiled), to run about as fast as the C version, to be more user friendly, and to use less actual lines of code doing so.
Installing from PyPi
To install from PyPi, you may use easy_install or pip:
easy_install qtfaststart
Installing from source
Download a copy of the source, cd into the top-level qtfaststart directory, and run:
python setup.py install
If you are installing to your system Python (instead of a virtualenv), you may need root access (via sudo or su).
Usage
See qt-faststart.py --help for more info! If outfile is not present then the infile is overwritten.
qtfaststart.py infile [outfile]
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Here are some key features of "qtfaststart":
· Works everywhere Python can be installed
· Handles both 32-bit (stco) and 64-bit (co64) atoms
· Handles any file where the mdat atom is before the moov atom
· Preserves the order of other atoms
· Can replace the original file (if given no output file)
Requirements:
· Python
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