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How to Set .MP4 File for Streaming:

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Do Make a safety copy of your MP4 file.

Note. Make sure that your file name uses only lower-case letters & numbers and does not contain any spaces. (eg. Replace any spaces with a hyphen or underscore character.)

• Open a Command Prompt Window:
• Type qt-faststart yourinputfile.mp4 yourexportfile.mp4
• Click Return key

You should now see the working messages from QT-FastStart.

Finally, close the Command Prompt session by:

• Type exit
• Click Return key

The Command Prompt Window should close. You should now have a new .mp4 file which is set to "fast-start."

Hints:

1. It is safest to type the full file name, including its “path.” One easy way to do this is to:

• Open Windows File Explorer and locate the MP4 file
• Right-click on the MP4 file and choose “Properties”
• Copy the MP4’s file location and its file name into MS Notepad

2. One quick way to create a suitable name for the output file:

• Having copied the input files full name into MS Notepad, select and copy this
• Type a single space after the end of this file name
• Paste a second copy of this file name after the space
• Edit this second copy to make it unique, by adding something such as -fix to the original file name.

3. Ctrl V does not work to paste into a Command Prompt window. Instead, try this:

• In MS Notepad, select & copy the complete string of input-filename space output-filename
• At the correct point in the Command Prompt window, right-click and choose “Paste”