MP4Box MPEG-4 / h.264 Metadata, Cutting & Merging Tool

If you are looking for something similar to flvtool2 or flvmdi, or you are a command line junky then I strongly encourage you to check out MP4Box. MP4Box has a ton of capabilities, but I’m just going to highlight 4 fundamentals:

  • Read file info (basic metadata).
  • Split or cut files.
  • Merge two or more files.
  • Convert to iPod.

Read basic file info from an MPEG-4 file:

mp4box_info.png

Split / extract / cut an MPEG-4 file:

mp4box_split.png

Read the info from one of our splices and make sure we’re getting what we expect:

mp4box_info_split file.png

Concatenate / merge multiple MPEG-4 files:

mp4box_concat.png

Merged file information:

mp4box_merged_info2.png

Convert to iPod file:

mp4box_ipod.png

MP4Box is a GPAC project, but they only distribute the source (no binary downloads). If you are like me and not keen to try and get Make to compile the source you can grab a binary from here. One last thing–read the docs–you’ll be amazed.

This entry was written by Brooks, posted on June 6, 2008 at 2:14 am, filed under Flash. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

2 Comments

  1. pawz
    Posted July 24, 2008 at 5:06 am | Permalink

    The link you provide is only to windows binaries. Where can I get an osx binary of mp4box that supports the ipod atom ?

  2. Brooks
    Posted July 24, 2008 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    Well here’s one link that Google returned:

    http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/EvalVid/mp4box-mac.tar.bz2

    You can also compile from source. :-)

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