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Convert Your Bloated Apple QuickTime .MOV videos to H264 .MP4 with ffmpeg Everybody knows that Apple QuickTime is an outdated and bloated video format that requires extra codecs to play on Windows 7 and 10, plus you need Apple Itunes or Apple QuickTime to play it back.  On Windows 7 and 10, you also need VLC media player or the codec pack to play it back with Windows Media player.  It's so bloated that a 3 minute video can easily fill up 1 GB of disk space.  Plus native QuickTime can easily fill up your icloud account.  Furthermore, it's an outdated format that will soon be obsolete. So, convert the videos to H264 video to compress down to 1/10 the file size and be playable on Windows Media Player and be ready for upload to YouTube.  Compress it and reduce the frame rate with ffmpeg to reduce the file size by 95% or more. First thing you need is Ubuntu 14 to 16+ LTS running on a decent core i7 machine with at least 4 cores. Then once you get that, you need...

Here's How I Convert Apple Quicktime .MOV and Windows .AVI Video to .MP4  Introduction Many Apple devices shoot video in H265 hvec, mpeg-h video format, and contain them in dual stream format where Stream 0 is H265 video and Stream 1 is MPEG AAC (mp4a) audio.  The file container is .MOV.  Other formats substitute H264 video for stream 0.  The results is what they call "Quicktime".  Other non Apple devices such as Sony Handycams and Mavicas store their video with a .AVI format. This container has JPEG video.  For all these weird and outmoded formats, you can convert them to more modern MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio, or H264 video with MP3 audio. Choose your codecs from this list .   This blog entry has examples of how to convert videos with VLC command line and ffmpg command line.  If this blog entry is helpful or you know of a better way, please say so in the comments. -- Thanks Guys! Convert it using MSDOS Batch Scripting and VLC player ...