xfayh/convert-videotompegdash

Convert videos to "Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP" (DASH)-Videos with powershell and ffmpeg

convert-videoToMpegDash

Powershell script to convert a MP4 or webm video into MPEG-DASH

• Creates the multiple bitrate versions to a pre-defined set of resolutions ('160', '320', '640', '1280', '1920')
• Splits the versions into segments of 1 second (by default)
• Creates the main MPEG-DASH manifest file.

Dependencies

• FFmpeg https://www.ffmpeg.org/
• Microsoft Powershell

Installation

Install all dependencies. Please ensure that the path to the ffmpeg.exe is available via the environment-variable PATH like via command line:

set PATH=C:\ffmpeg\bin

Download the convert-videoToMpegDash.ps1 from this repo and save it to the folder of your choice.

Usage

Execute the powershell-script eg with

.\convert-movieToDash.ps1 -original ~\Videos\myVideo.mp4

Parameter

-original is used to set the path to the video that gets converted to a MPEG-DASH set.

Result

The results are stored at the location of the original video source.

What to do with the mpeg-dash stuff?

add dashjs to your website eg via:

<script src="https://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/dash.all.min.js"></script>

then upload the generated files to your favorite HTTPS-Server and include the HTML Video snippet eg.:

  <video data-dashjs-player="" autoplay="" src="myVideo.mpd" controls="" preload="auto">
    <source src="myVideo.webm" type="video/webm">
    <source src="myVideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    Your browser does not support the video tag!
  </video>