hls2dash 0.1.0

Command line tools for HLS to MPEG DASH repackaging

Description

This is an open source video streaming packager and toolkit to rewrap live HLS streams to live MPEG DASH streams.

Features

• Generate single period MPEG DASH for live based on an HLS live stream

• Generate multi period MPEG DASH for live based on an HLS live stream with SCTE35 splicing

Usage

Install

Installation from source:

python setup.py install

Running

Generate Single period MPEG DASH:

hls-to-dash http://example.com/master.m3u8 > stream.mpd

Generate Multi period MPEG DASH:

hls-to-dash http://example.com/master.m3u8 --multi > stream.mpd

Help

usage: hls-to-dash [-h] [--multi] [--ctx CTX] [--ctxdir CTXDIR] [--debug]
                   PLAYLIST

Generate single and multi period MPEG DASH manifest from a live HLS source.
Writes MPEG DASH manifest to stdout.

Currently assumes that HLS variant is named as 'master[PROFILE].m3u8'
  master2500.m3u8, master1500.m3u8
and that the segments are named as 'master[PROFILE]_[SEGNO].ts'
  master2500_34202.ts, master1500_34202.ts

positional arguments:
  PLAYLIST         Path to HLS playlist file. Can be a URI or local file.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --multi          Generate multi period MPEG DASH on EXT-X-CUE markers in HLS
  --ctx CTX        Name of DASH session file
  --ctxdir CTXDIR  Where to store DASH session file. Defaults to /tmp/
  --debug          Write debug info to stderr