Create documentation on how to create DASH manifests and place in readme and website

[wilaw]

Different sections for well known packagers, such as mp4box, bvento, castlabs, bitmovin etc.

[msmole]

How should this look like? We are happy to contribute on this.
We've already two articles on that, one on x264+MP4Box (http://www.dash-player.com/blog/2014/11/mpeg-dash-content-generation-using-mp4box-and-x264/), another one on our cloud-transcoding service bitcodin (http://www.bitcodin.com/blog/2015/02/create-mpeg-dash-hls-content-for-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/). We could take some parts of them as a starting point.

[colde]

Should this go to the dashif.org website, or just the dash.js wiki here on github? I can do a quick writeup for the bento4 tools with both Widevine and PlayReady as well as clear.

[arnaudleyder]

We have been working at this for our player lately and have compiled a guide to get dash.js compatible MPEG-DASH stream with MP4Box and ffmpeg. The guide is here https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/working-with-mp4box.html. It covers:

• creating keyframe aligned mp4s files with ffmpeg
• dashing for multi-bitrate stream with MP4Box
• dashing for multiple audio stream with MP4Box

We could contribute to the wiki or feel free to pick from it.

[xinxi531]

this link: https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/working-with-mp4box.html is dead

[joshuambg]

Since none of this is really possible without a manifest, can we please hurry up on this task? kthxbye

[dsilhavy]

@wilaw : Since you initially opened that issue: I suggest we add a new item "How to create DASH content" to the Background Info section. In this page we can provide a list of useful links/resources/how tos for the different packagers. I don't think we should write own guidelines as the APIs of the underlying tools might change frequently which requires changes from our side then.

[wilaw]

Agreed. Own guidelines are not necessary. Just point to existing sites.

[dsilhavy]

A new page was added here: https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/wiki/How-to-create-DASH-manifests . We will try to collect additional resources if available.