Stream videos directly from the decentralized Arweave permaweb.
This tool allows you to deploy MPEG-DASH encoded videos directly into Arweave's permaweb. Those videos can later be viewed through Arweave's gateway.
A pre-built version of Ardash is available at https://marcojrfurtado.github.io/ardash/
This is a static page, and not a service. This means that your wallet and content are never stored in any server. If you wish, you may also build it locally. For more information, please check dapp/README.md.
The dApp is not able to encode videos in-browser just yet. For that we rely on MP4Box. You can install it in your own computer, and connect it to the dApp
Assuming you are using Ubuntu, simply install required packages by running
apt-get install -y gpac python3.7 zip
Then start the server locally
cd backend && python3.7 app.py
This should start a local server on your machine, under port 5000.
Once the dApp is able to communicate with the local backend, you should see its video processing button change from
- Video upload unavailable
to
- Drop H.264 Video
If you do not wish to run the local server in your machine, you may process the video through a command-line command, and simply drop the zip containing the dash segments into the app.
./dashify.sh <video.mp4> -z
For more information, please check cli/README.md
The dApp also allows you to preview commited videos, once all its transactions have been mined. Its goal is to teach users how to embed videos into their own websites. It relies on Arweave's gateway for displaying those transactions. For more information, please refer to https://www.arweave.org/technology
Would you like to preview an existing video? Try transaction wxY3H9lXY9tc5DhF3IcvsneFcS_3kKD7FdJT9f4rMts as an example.
You can try embedding this on your website with the following snippet
<script src="https://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/dash.all.min.js"></script>
...
<body>
<div>
<video data-dashjs-player autoplay
src="https://arweave.net/wxY3H9lXY9tc5DhF3IcvsneFcS_3kKD7FdJT9f4rMts"
controls></video>
</div>
</body>If you benefited from the tool, and would like to see it being maintained, please consider contributing
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AR : ojThvC30aNfH-lLbpoRxZ1Y76p72bP7rQL2VIhxDRj4
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ETH/ERC-20 : 0x394220e29b61E3b10BA4eEfD0D887Fcffd16e656