Seems like faststart support has been included in ffmpeg. FFmpeg Formats Documentation: -movflags faststart Run a second pass moving the moov atom on top of the file. This operation can take a while, and will not work in various situations such as fragmented output, thus it is not enabled by default.
Sadly Chrome – like other HTML5 browsers – tries to be smart about what it’s downloading and avoids unnecessary bandwidth usage… this means that sometimes we’re left with a sub-optimal experience (ironically YouTube suffers from this so much that there are extensions to force more pre-buffering!) That said, I’ve not found this to be required … Read more
FFmpeg has three concatenation methods: 1. concat video filter Use this method if your inputs do not have the same parameters (width, height, etc), or are not the same formats/codecs, or if you want to perform any filtering. Note that this method performs a re-encode of all inputs. If you want to avoid the re-encode, … Read more
First off, it’s important to understand that there is no single standard H.264 elementary bitstream format. The specification document does contain an Annex, specifically Annex B, that describes one possible format, but it is not an actual requirement. The standard specifies how video is encoded into individual packets. How these packets are stored and transmitted … Read more