4Fly

Warning

Keep in mind that 4Fly is still in the experimental phase and may not be bug-free or fully polished. Be aware of this when using it.

4Fly is a versatile cross-platform CLI tool that enables seamless demuxing and encoding of MP4 files, allowing for flexible fragmentation into segments of any duration. Its primary goal is to circumvent the limitations of traditional pre-fragmentation methods used in HLS protocols.

Usages

Fragmentation

$ 4Fly <path> <flags...>

path  : mp4 video path

flags:
    -time:[default = 3.0]
        fragment duration.
    -entity:[default=all - values:all;m3u8;init;<fragment_number>]
        Entity to generate.

Exemple :

# Creating HLS Manifest of 6.0 seconds long segments.
$ 4Fly .\test.mp4 -time:6.0 -entity:m3u8

# Creating FMP4 init file.
$ 4Fly .\test.mp4 -time:6.0 -entity:init

# Creating FMP4 20th fragment.
$ 4Fly .\test.mp4 -time:6.0 -entity:20

Dump

You can display the file structure :

$ 4Fly dump <mp4_file_path> 

Exemple:

Run this :

$ 4Fly dump test.mp4

can output something like this :

[ftyp]  0
[moov]  0
| [mvhd]  1
| [trak]  1
| | [tkhd]  2
| | [edts]  2
| | | [elst]  3
| | [mdia]  2
| | | [mdhd]  3
| | | [hdlr]  3
| | | [minf]  3
| | | | [vmhd]  4
| | | | [dinf]  4
| | | | | [dref]  5
| | | | [stbl]  4
| | | | | [stsd]  5
| | | | | [stts]  5
| | | | | [stss]  5
| | | | | [ctts]  5
| | | | | [stsc]  5
| | | | | [stsz]  5
| | | | | [co64]  5
| [trak]  1
| | [tkhd]  2
| | [edts]  2
| | | [elst]  3
| | [mdia]  2
| | | [mdhd]  3
| | | [hdlr]  3
| | | [minf]  3
| | | | [smhd]  4
| | | | [dinf]  4
| | | | | [dref]  5
| | | | [stbl]  4
| | | | | [stsd]  5
| | | | | [stts]  5
| | | | | [stsc]  5
| | | | | [stsz]  5
| | | | | [co64]  5
| [udta]  1
| | [meta]  2
[mdat]

HLS

To test with HLS protocole :

• Make shure you compile and have 4Fly binary in project root.
• Go to "server" folder
• Put your video in
• Rename the video to "test.mp4"
• Run :

$ go run .

• Open your browser to http://localhost:8080

... And that's it !

Installation

Compile from sources

From Windows, Linux or MacOS:

• Get odin compiler, you need the "core" library.

• Clone 4File main branch and build

  git clone https://github.com/julienrull/4Fly.git
  cd 4Fly
  odin build .