Welcome to html5video!

Converts a source video file into the multiple video container and codecs required to support HTML5’s <video> tag.

• Installation
  • Installing FFMPEG
• Usage
  • Command Line
  • Calling the API
  • Video Markup

Quick Start

1. Install FFMPEG version 0.8 or above.
2. pip install html5video or easy_install html5video.
3. Run the command html5video /path/to/source_video

Justification

Why another wrapper around a video encoder? Reading and digesting all the different requirements for HTML5 video is a tedious task. With html5video you can rely on a sensible set of defaults that can be tweaks and are kept up to date over time.

Requirements

html5video requires the following modules. If you use pip, you can install the necessary packages via the included requirements.txt. If you installed html5video with pip you will already have the required packages.

Required

• Unipath 0.2.1

Development Requirements

To work on html5video itself, the following requirements are recommended for running the full test suite and building the documentation.

• coverage
• mock
• nose
• sphinx
• unittest2
• versiontools

Planned/Requested Features

• Support for Django/Jinja2 template langugaes to output the <video> tag.
• Support for more versions of FFMPEG
• Support for further customisation and control over the video output

Contributions

Bug reports, patches and pull requests are welcome. The code and management of the project is happening on GitHub