vidprep
A command-line tool that turns one video into everything a website needs to host it itself: streaming versions, a poster, scrub previews, chapters, caption files and an embed code. Open source, in early development.
vidprep takes one video file and makes a folder you can upload to any web host or storage bucket. There is no server to run and no video platform account.
- Versions at several sizes, from 1080p down to 360p and never enlarged, for adaptive streaming with HLS.
- A poster image, and a sheet of thumbnails for previews as you scrub.
- Chapter files from the video's own markers, and empty caption files for each language you list.
- An HTML snippet to paste into a page, and a check to run on the folder before you upload it.
- Location tags and other metadata are removed from the video.
Status
Early development, version 0.1. Python and ffmpeg; MIT licence.
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