[Libav-user] Encoding with H264 help/advice needed...

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Philip Schneider <pjschneider at ...> writes:

> QuickTimePlayer doesn’t like the format (tries to “convert” 
> and says “QuickTime Player can’t open <filename>”.
> 
> The “file” command gives me back this:
> 
>     JVT NAL sequence, H.264 video  <at>  L 13

I suspect Quicktime does not support JVT NAL sequences, 
you can test with files produced with ffmpeg:
$ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc -pix_fmt yuv420p -t 10 out.h264

You probably want to mux into mov.

Carl Eugen