A Rust library for parsing and downloading media content from a DASH MPD file, as used by video services such as on-demand replay of TV content and video streaming services like YouTube.
DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP), also called MPEG-DASH, is a technology used for media streaming over the web, commonly used for video on demand (VOD) services. The Media Presentation Description (MPD) is a description of the resources (manifest or “playlist”) forming a streaming service, that a DASH client uses to determine which assets to request in order to perform adaptive streaming of the content. DASH MPD manifests can be used both with content encoded as MPEG and as WebM. There is a good explanation of adaptive bitrate video streaming at howvideo.works.
This library provides a serde-based parser for the DASH MPD format, as formally defined in ISO/IEC standard 23009-1:2019. XML schema files are available for no cost from ISO. When MPD files in practical use diverge from the formal standard, this library prefers to interoperate with existing practice.
The library also provides experimental support for downloading content (audio or video) described by
an MPD manifest. This involves selecting the alternative with the most appropriate encoding (in
terms of bitrate, codec, etc.), fetching segments of the content using HTTP or HTTPS requests (this
functionality depends on the reqwest crate) and muxing audio and video segments together.
If the library feature libav is enabled, muxing support (combining audio and video streams, which
are often separated out in DASH streams) is provided by ffmpeg’s libav library, via the ac_ffmpeg
crate. Otherwise, muxing is implemented by calling ffmpeg as a subprocess. The ffmpeg commandline
application implements a number of checks and workarounds to fix invalid input streams that tend to
exist in the wild. Some of these workarounds, but not all, are implemented here when using libav as
a library, so download support tends to be more robust with the default configuration (using ffmpeg
as a subprocess).
```rust use std::time::Duration; use dash_mpd::{MPD, parse};
fn main() { let client = reqwest::blocking::Client::builder() .timeout(Duration::new(10, 0)) .gzip(true) .build() .expect("Couldn't create reqwest HTTP client"); let xml = client.get("http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/dash/ondemand/testcard/1/client_manifest-events.mpd") .header("Accept", "application/dash+xml,video/vnd.mpeg.dash.mpd") .send() .expect("Requesting MPD content") .text() .expect("Fetching MPD content"); let mpd: MPD = parse(&xml) .expect("parsing MPD"); if let Some(pi) = mpd.ProgramInformation { if let Some(title) = pi.Title { println!("Title: {:?}", title.content); } if let Some(source) = pi.Source { println!("Source: {:?}", source.content); } } for p in mpd.periods { if let Some(d) = p.duration { println!("Contains Period of duration {:?}", d); } } } ```
The experimental support for downloading content from an MPD manifest:
```rust use dash_mpd::fetch::DashDownloader;
let url = "https://storage.googleapis.com/shaka-demo-assets/heliocentrism/heliocentrism.mpd"; let dlpath = DashDownloader::new(url) .worstquality() .download(); println!("Downloaded to {:?}", dl_path); ```
Add to your Cargo.toml file:
toml
[dependencies]
dash-mpd = "0.4"
This crate is tested on the following platforms:
This project is licensed under the MIT license. For more information, see the LICENSE-MIT file.