This script converts MP4 video files to multi-bitrate videos based on MPEG-DASH, is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers.
- Generate MPEG-DASH manifest file (MPD)
- Generate multi-bitrate videos
- Generate multiple audio channels
- Generate video thumbnails
- Generate VTT subtitles
- Send processed video info to third-party service by cURL
- ffmpeg
- gpac
- imagemagick (montage)
- sed
- curl
1. First make bash script executable:
$ sudo chmod +x dash.sh
2. Move your MP4 video files to the root of the project. Note that the file names are without spaces. If your file is not a MP4 video format (e.g. MKV file), convert it using the following command:
$ ffmpeg -i file.mkv -map_chapters -1 -map 0:v -map 0:a -c:v copy -c:a copy -sn file.mp4
3. Put your SRT subtitle files with the same name as the video file and in the following format next to the video (Optional):
{VIDEO_NAME}_{LANG}.srt
e.g. movie_EN.srt
4. Then run the script:
$ ./dash.sh
Add the following mime-types to .htaccess:
AddType video/mp4 m4s AddType application/dash+xml mpd