Fetch audio and video without muxing

[sleepycatcoding]

Is there a way to download video and audio without muxing them into one file? I would like to have them as separate files.

[sleepycatcoding]

Actually I found a way to accomplish this by using audio_only() and video_only(), but this requires two requests to the manifest file. I do not know if reqwest caches requests to the same file.

[emarsden]

You can use DashDownloader::new(url).keep_audio().keep_video(). This doesn't in fact disable the muxing step but will keep the audio and video as separate files (assuming they are separate content streams).

[sleepycatcoding]

You can use DashDownloader::new(url).keep_audio().keep_video(). This doesn't in fact disable the muxing step but will keep the audio and video as separate files (assuming they are separate content streams).

If I were to use keep_audio() and keep_video(), is there a way to fetch paths to the files?

EDIT:

Seems the paths are only printed to stdout.

dash-mpd-rs/src/fetch.rs

Lines 2048 to 2057 in 2135788

	if downloader.keep_audio {
	println!("Audio stream kept in file {tmppath_audio}");
	} else if fs::remove_file(tmppath_audio).is_err() {
	log::info!("Failed to delete temporary file for audio segments");
	}
	if downloader.keep_video {
	println!("Video stream kept in file {tmppath_video}");
	} else if fs::remove_file(tmppath_video).is_err() {
	log::info!("Failed to delete temporary file for video segments");
	}

[emarsden]

Indeed, there's no API to retrieve that information. Perhaps it would be better to change the interface to something like keep_audio_as(audio-pathname) .

[sleepycatcoding]

Indeed, there's no API to retrieve that information. Perhaps it would be better to change the interface to something like keep_audio_as(audio-pathname) .

Created a draft PR for this: #26.