Video Codecs & Conversion

This is out of date, please see https://streamaserver.org/docs

 

 

   

 

  

 

 

Unfortunately, the application does not convert your videos for you (yet!). In order to get the videos working, you might have to convert them yourself. For compatible codecs, see HTML5 Video Browser Support

if your videos won't play, make sure that they are HTML5 compatible. I will add video-conversion soon, but right now there is no conversion, so you have to rely on what your browser can handle. A quick and easy test is to open a new empty browser-tab and drag&drop your video file in. If it shows up in a player, then it's a compatible format. If it downloads, it's incompatible. Also, of all browsers, Chrome supports most of the HTML5 formats as far as I know.

Batch-Conversion H.264

I've written a bash-script html5VideoHandBrakeFolder.sh that loops over the contents of a given folder and converts them to H.264. It requires HandBrakeCLI.

Usage:

 ./html5VideoHandBrakeFolder.sh  directory