[FFmpeg-user] MOOV error when converting .mov to mp4

[andy s]

Can someone help to resolve an issue with converting from .MOV files to MP4?
Conversions fail with the following error: [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @
0x33fb900] moov atom not found

inputFile.mov: Invalid data found when processing input.  Please see full
log output below.

 

I have found through reading other postings that other people have had
success using the following command: ffmpeg -i inputFile.mov -vcodec copy
-acodec copy outputFile.mp4 . However, this doesn't work in my case. Any
help will be much appreciated.

 

ffmpeg -i inputFile.mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy outputFile.mp4

ffmpeg version git-2014-03-07-61ff043 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg
developers

  built on Mar  7 2014 18:23:07 with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat
4.4.7-4)

  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build
--extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include
--extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin
--extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libfdk_aac
--enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx
--enable-libx264

  libavutil      52. 66.101 / 52. 66.101

  libavcodec     55. 52.102 / 55. 52.102

  libavformat    55. 33.101 / 55. 33.101

  libavdevice    55. 11.100 / 55. 11.100

  libavfilter     4.  3.100 /  4.  3.100

  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101

  libswresample   0. 18.100 /  0. 18.100

  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x33fb900] moov atom not found

inputFile.mov: Invalid data found when processing input