dash-mediatools 0.9.0

Tools for MPEG-DASH media creation and analysis

DASH Industry Forum collection of various tools. A lot of them are small and need to be run directly from the source tree.

Major tools

dash-batch-encoder (dash_tools.batch_encoder)

• Uses ffmpeg to create multi-variant mp4 content with fixed GoP duration

• Output is suitable for transforming into DASH ABR content

• Configured via JSON recipes

dash-ondemand-creator (dash_tools.ondemand_creator)

• Uses MP4Box to transform the output of dash-batch-encoder into DASH OnDemand content.

• Postprocesses audio tracks to get segment alignment with video

• Configured via JSON recipe

dash-ondemand-verifier (dash_tools.ondemand_verifier)

• Performs checks on (trees of) DASH OnDemand asset and reports issues

dash-livedownloader (dash_tools.livedownloader)

• Downloads a live DASH asset and stores on disk. Only supports $Number$-template

These above tools are exported as scripts starting with prefix dash-. There corresponding names in the source code does not have that part.

dash_tools.ts

• This is a competent MPEG-2 TS parser

For more details, see online documentation.