Since I received several mails from people that were searching for the windows binary of QT-Faststart but couldn’t find it… here a binary that works:
http://notboring.org/downloads/video/qt-faststart.zip
This tool was *not* written by me, say thanks to the author that can be found at http://multimedia.cx/eggs/improving-qt-faststart/.
September 24th, 2009
Thanks, very useful!
October 1st, 2009
Thank you, I was searching for a build for window.
Merci mec !
January 12th, 2010
Thanks a lot for this!
It allows me to make my 3GP videos compatible onto Android devices
January 20th, 2010
Awesome, thanks for the build!
February 14th, 2010
one of the best tools I ever used…
Many thanks for this.
February 14th, 2010
one of the best tools I have ever used!
Many thanks for this from germany.
March 23rd, 2010
Oh no! The link seems to be down…
June 7th, 2010
Thanks a lot – exactly what I needed!
August 31st, 2010
Thank you! really needed this!
November 25th, 2010
Thanks a lot!
Many thanks for this from China.
January 13th, 2011
Hi! The link above appears to be broken. Any chance you still have the windows binaries that you could forward or repost?
Thanks!
January 13th, 2011
Hello Justin, sorry, I deleted a file too much as it seems. I reuploaded the windows binary so the link is back to working.
April 18th, 2011
New to this but also desperately need it. Anyone who can give a quick guide to run this thing? Much x thanks!
April 18th, 2011
It’s a pretty straight forward command line tool, use it like this:
qt-faststart INPUTFILE.mp4 OUTPUTFILE.mp4
April 18th, 2011
Thanks so much Malte. I thought I got my hands on a GUI version
. Maybe asking for too much here..lol.
Another thing…what if the result appears as “the last part of the file is not a moov atom”? Does that mean the file is already in fast start mode?
April 18th, 2011
QT-Faststart only works if the xmoov atom is at the end of the file. So yes, your file might already be streamable, even though I could see configurations in which the atom might not be accessible. If you have files where qt-faststart doesn’t help you, you could give “mp4box” a shot. That tool can also move the xmoov atom and you can download various GUI’s for it.
April 18th, 2011
Hmmm..will d’load it then. Thanks again Malte.
April 29th, 2011
I apologize as well but I am also having problems with this. Where would I type this command?
qt-faststart INPUTFILE.mp4 OUTPUTFILE.mp4
April 29th, 2011
How you do that depends on your Operating system. If you use Windows 7 you would click on start then type
cmd
in the textfield. It will show you a program with a black icon and “c:\” on it, select it and a window will open.
If you are not comfortable with using a command line interface check out mp4box which has GUI tools.
October 22nd, 2012
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