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You can now convert all of your dash files to HLS format so that you can use them more easily.

Features

  • Download a dash file in text format
  • Convert a dash file to JSON format
  • Convert dash file to HLS file
  • Convert dash file to source url list

DashToHLS [Windows]

Note : Currently only windows executable is provided (Linux, Mac users go to Build from source)

Download the Latest Release from here and extract the zip file

A conversion error? Go ahead and post your issue here. And I will look into the error and give necessary fixes!

Running the application

Navigate to the extracted folder and open a cmd or powershell window from that folder and execute “dash2hls.exe” from command line.

If you’re running from source files, execute the “main.py” script

python3 ./main.py

How to convert using DashToHLS (CLI)?

First, you need to familiarize yourself with the commands you can use the dash to HLS converter.

Commands List :
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
  -i, --input           Manifest file url.
      --headers         Using a custom header.
  -l, --list            List of available media.
  -m, --media           Index of selected media.
  -b, --bandwidth       Choice of quality among the selected media.
  -p, --path            Custom save path of HLS file.
  -o, --output          Output file name (without extension).

Above mentioned are the arguments you need to use to convert dash source to HLS.

Implementation

You can also directly use dash 2 hls directly as a library to integrate it into a program and directly retrieve the desired information.

import dash2hls

url = 'URL'
media_video = 0
media_audio = 1
bandwidth_video = 0
bandwidth_audio = 0

mdp = dash2hls.Converter(url)
print(mdp.json_manifest)

# Video
selected = [mdp.json_manifest[media_video], bandwidth_video]
mdp.save_hls(selected[0], selected[1])
print(mdp.get_url_list(selected[0], selected[1]))

# Audio
selected = [mdp.json_manifest[media_audio], bandwidth_audio]
mdp.save_hls(selected[0], selected[1])

Building from source

  • Clone the project using to your local machine

Prerequisites

  • Make sure python 3.7+ (preferably the latest version) and pip3 is installed

Installing

  1. Download the dependancies using requirements.txt file
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To see the full available commands, run

python ./main.py --help

usage: main.py [-h] [--input INPUT] [--headers HEADERS] [--list] [--media MEDIA] [--bandwidth BANDWIDTH] [--path PATH]
               [--output OUTPUT]

dash2hls Command Line Tool

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
  -i, --input           Manifest file url.
      --headers         Using a custom header.
  -l, --list            List of available media.
  -m, --media           Index of selected media.
  -b, --bandwidth       Choice of quality among the selected media.
  -p, --path            Custom save path of HLS file.
  -o, --output          Output file name (without extension).

Examples

Display the list of media available for a dash file

python3 ./main.py --input "URL" --list

Convert dash file based on selection

python3 ./main.py --input "URL" --media INDEX --bandwidth BANDWIDTH

Result

Authors

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE.md file for details

Disclaimer

This software has been developed only for educational purposes by the Author. By no means this encourage content piracy. Please support original content creators!

GitHub

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