ffmpeg - Converting MOV files to MP4

Question

I have just installed ffmpeg and I am trying to encode all my uploaded videos to  mp4 file  Most of the users currently upload  mov and I want to convert every video to  mp4   I am running the command as follows   ffmpeg -i movie mov -vcodec copy -acodec cop out mp4   But all I am getting is the following errors  ffmpeg version 0 8 5  Copyright  c  2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers   built on Aug 19 2012 11 38 20 with clang 3 1  tags Apple clang-318 0 61    configuration  --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --disable-indevs --cc clang   libavutil    51   9  1   51   9  1   libavcodec   53   7  0   53   7  0   libavformat  53   4  0   53   4  0   libavdevice  53   1  1   53   1  1   libavfilter   2  23  0    2  23  0   libswscale    2   0  0    2   0  0   libpostproc  51   2  0   51   2  0 Input  0  mov mp4 m4a 3gp 3g2 mj2  from  movie mov     Metadata      major brand       qt       minor version     537199360     compatible brands  qt       creation time     2012-03-28 07 13 20   Duration  00 00 26 23  start  0 000000  bitrate  12974 kb s     Stream  0 0 eng   Video  mjpeg  yuvj420p  1280x720  PAR 72 72 DAR 16 9   12972 kb s  11 67 fps  600 tbr  600 tbn  600 tbc     Metadata        creation time     2012-03-28 07 13 20 File  out mp4  already exists  Overwrite    y N  y Output  0  mp4  to  out mp4     Metadata      major brand       qt       minor version     537199360     compatible brands  qt       creation time     2012-03-28 07 13 20     encoder           Lavf53 4 0     Stream  0 0 eng   Video  mjpeg  yuvj420p  1280x720  PAR 72 72 DAR 16 9   q 2-31  12972 kb s  600 tbn  600 tbc     Metadata        creation time     2012-03-28 07 13 20 Stream mapping    Stream  0 0 - gt   0 0 Press  q  to stop      for help frame   121 fps   0 q -1 0 size    16408kB time 00 00 10 08 bitrate 13332 2kbitsframe   306 fps   0 q -1 0 Lsize    41543kB time 00 00 26 12 bitrate 13025 0kbits s     video 41538kB audio 0kB global headers 0kB muxing overhead 0 012531

User · Accepted Answer

The command to just stream it to a new container (mp4) needed by some applications like Adobe Premiere Pro without encoding (fast) is:

ffmpeg -i input.mov -qscale 0 output.mp4

Alternative as mentioned in the comments, which re-encodes with best quaility (-qscale 0):

ffmpeg -i input.mov -q:v 0 output.mp4

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