MP4Box comparing to Qt-faststart

Question

Since I have no idea about qt-faststart (and a little with MP4Box) are there any online resources about them(haven't found much)? Which is better? What about their differences? Especially if i want to create hinted video files for android devices, which one is the best?

Answer 1

One is a single purpose tool, one is a virtual tool chest of gadgets.

• qt-faststart: Single purpose: Move the MOOV atom. That's it, nothing else. Small (13kb executable on OSX) easy to compile.
• MP4Box: Larger (~2500 KB) and capable of oh-so-much-more. From the documentation:

MP4Box is a multimedia packager, with a vast number of functionalities: conversion, splitting, hinting, dumping and others