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• Create different qaulities for my manifest with only mp4box

  29 September 2020, by Ted Bed

  I asked a question on slack on why the quality and bitrate of my dash video wasn't changing and I got this response: You only have one quality in your manifest. there is no way for the player to choose a different one

  


  So how can I create different "qualities"?

  


  I have a mp4box command like:

  


  MP4Box -dash 2000 -profile dashavc264:live -bs-switching multi -url-template whatever.mp4#trackID=1:id=vid0:role=vid0 whatever.mp4#trackID=2:id=aud0:role=aud0 -out whatever.mpd


  


  Would it be possible to create different "qualities" with only mp4box or would I have to create the same video with different resolutions with something like ffmpeg and then feed them into the inputs to the command above?

  


• How to concatenate two MP4 files, which require http basic Authorization: Bearer , using ffmpeg?

  8 July 2023, by Jeff Strongman

  Hello dear ffmpeg experts! 🧠 🎯

  


  I ran the following command, which worked perfectly:

  


  ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist https,concat,tls,tcp -i "concat:https://dash.akamaized.net/akamai/bbb_30fps/bbb_30fps_1280x720_4000k/bbb_30fps_1280x720_4000k_0.m4v|https://dash.akamaized.net/akamai/bbb_30fps/bbb_30fps_1280x720_4000k/bbb_30fps_1280x720_4000k_1.m4v|https://dash.akamaized.net/akamai/bbb_30fps/bbb_30fps_1280x720_4000k/bbb_30fps_1280x720_4000k_2.m4v" -c:v copy -vframes 180 -y Movie_of_6_seconds.mp4

  


  I followed the recommended solution of the following post:
How to concatenate two MP4 files using FFmpeg?

  


  You can execute the command on your local computer and see that it should run just fine...

  


  I used 3. concat protocol, which does indeed concat init + progressive segments

  


  However... when every segment on a server I refer to, is password protected, it fails with 401 Unauthorized, even though I added the following line:
-headers "Authorization: Bearer bas64user:password" , before specifying the -i "concat:...".

  


  It seems to me... that the headers don't pass to the concat command inside of the input of ffmpeg... and it simply ignores them. When I used the same -headers command, on a single file, without concat, it passed the authorization successfully

  


  Notes:

  


  

  • Even though every segment has a length of 120 frames (So in maximum, I could have generated 2*120 = 240 frames... I wanted a movie of 6 seconds and not 8... And by this way, to test that ffmpeg is smart enough to stop processing the whole input). To do that, I used -vframes 180, where 180 / 30 (FPS) = 6 seconds

  


  • I used -c:v copy, to get without re-encoding, only the video part (No audio!)

  


  • I used -y to override existing file...

  


  • 0.m4v, is the init file! it is a small file, that has metadata of the original video which was produced with mpeg-dash

  


  • 1.m4v and 2.m4v, are the progressive segments

  


  


  Is there a way, to pass the http basic headers (Authorization: Bearer) to all of the chained files?

  


  Like:

  


  

  • Via a json content type on the ffmpeg request

  


  • Or user:password@video_segment (Although... it seems to me it's not a header?)

  


  • Somehow specify header inside the concat command?

  


  


  I don't want to first download all files and then get rid of the password protected... as it both takes ridiculous time & other resources... and I would like to record from a segment that is "endless", meaning a camera that keeps streaming data.

  


  Thanks in advance 🙏🏻,

  


  FFmpeg noobie 🙈

  


• open source CMS and server for video streaming platform

  30 May 2016, by Infinite

  I have to propose a platform that allows streaming video services employing the MPEEG-DASH standard. This platform blocks must be implemented with open source tools. I proposed FFmpeg to encode and MP4Box/GPAC tool for encryption and packaging. For the DRM case my propose is to use Widewine (I didn’t find any other open source tool) which is compatible with dash.js (the player proposed by me), it can be integrated to Chrome and according to CastLabs it’s also compatible with MP4Box. So, I have to select an open source CMS, and at the same time I need it to be compatible with dash.js. I read that it’s possible to add any JavaScript to these CMS, that it’s only necessary to create some modules to do so. I’d like to know which one of the following CMS you suggest me: MediaDrop, Drupal or Wordpress.
  I also have some doubts about the server. I know that in order to offer this service it only takes a traditional HTTP server. In a first moment I chose Nginx over Apache because the latter presents some problems associated to performance (the server will receive a large amount of simultaneous requests), nevertheless, I discarded Nginx (Nginx-rtmp module) due to its constraints: it’s only for live streaming (I need the service to be offered also on demand) and the inputs must be RTMP. I found something about Nginx-based VOD packager, do you know if this one can be used as a server to offer live and on demand streaming service?