After reading below article do not forget to checkout Important Update to Another Simple C# Wrapper For FFmpeg
When you want to encode uploaded videos to your website you are in luck if you use PHP, encoding uploaded videos to your web site on the fly quite easy on Linux based servers. Install FFmpeg and get a PHP wrapper for FFmpeg and you are good to go.
Story is a little bit different on Windows servers. There is no support from .Net framework; although there are couple of open source C# .Net wrappers for FFmpeg that encodes video on the fly, they are mostly incomplete. There are also commercial ones such as Mediahandler are not free/open-source.
In short, I couldn't get what i wanted from open-source ones so I've decided to write my own C# wrapper for FFmpeg.
My .Net skills are no where near good but here what i ended up with.
See usage in the example at the bottom of this post. Download whole project VideoEncoder.rar (48.54 kb) or download changes made by Anders (see comments) VideoEncoderAsync.rar (6.79 kb)
Don't forget to download FFmpeg win32 build and put in to FFmpeg folder in the project
My solution has 5 classes;
Encoder.cs, does the main job and gets FFmpegPath as input.
It has 3 methods :
- EncodeVideo: Encodes video with FFmpeg according to commands
- GetVideoThumbnail: Gets video thumbnail image without encoding video
- GetVideoInfo: Gets information about source video and assigns it to VideoFile class such as Duration, BitRate, AudioFormat, VideoFormat, Height, Width
To do: Implement a class to insert logo on to the video with ffmpeg -vhook
Source of Encoder.cs
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using
System;
using
System.Diagnostics;
using
System.IO;
using
System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace
VideoEncoder
{
public
class
Encoder
{
public
EncodedVideo EncodeVideo(VideoFile input,
string
encodingCommand,
string
outputFile,
bool
getVideoThumbnail)
{
EncodedVideo encoded =
new
EncodedVideo();
Params =
string
.Format(
"-i {0} {1} {2}"
, input.Path, encodingCommand, outputFile);
string
output = RunProcess(Params);
encoded.EncodingLog = output;
encoded.EncodedVideoPath = outputFile;
if
(File.Exists(outputFile))
{
encoded.Success =
true
;
//get thumbnail?
if
(getVideoThumbnail)
{
string
saveThumbnailTo = outputFile +
"_thumb.jpg"
;
if
(GetVideoThumbnail(input, saveThumbnailTo))
{
encoded.ThumbnailPath = saveThumbnailTo;
}
}
}
else
{
encoded.Success =
false
;
}
return
encoded;
}
public
bool
GetVideoThumbnail(VideoFile input,
string
saveThumbnailTo)
{
if
(!input.infoGathered)
{
GetVideoInfo(input);
}
int
secs;
//divide the duration in 3 to get a preview image in the middle of the clip
//instead of a black image from the beginning.
secs = (
int
)Math.Round(TimeSpan.FromTicks(input.Duration.Ticks / 3).TotalSeconds, 0);
string
Params =
string
.Format(
"-i {0} {1} -vcodec mjpeg -ss {2} -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo"
, input.Path, saveThumbnailTo, secs);
string
output = RunProcess(Params);
if
(File.Exists(saveThumbnailTo))
{
return
true
;
}
else
{
//try running again at frame 1 to get something
Params =
string
.Format(
"-i {0} {1} -vcodec mjpeg -ss {2} -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo"
, input.Path, saveThumbnailTo, 1);
output = RunProcess(Params);
if
(File.Exists(saveThumbnailTo))
{
return
true
;
}
else
{
return
false
;
}
}
}
public
void
GetVideoInfo(VideoFile input)
{
string
Params =
string
.Format(
"-i {0}"
, input.Path);
string
output = RunProcess(Params);
input.RawInfo = output;
input.Duration = ExtractDuration(input.RawInfo);
input.BitRate = ExtractBitrate(input.RawInfo);
input.RawAudioFormat = ExtractRawAudioFormat(input.RawInfo);
input.AudioFormat = ExtractAudioFormat(input.RawAudioFormat);
input.RawVideoFormat = ExtractRawVideoFormat(input.RawInfo);
input.VideoFormat = ExtractVideoFormat(input.RawVideoFormat);
input.Width = ExtractVideoWidth(input.RawInfo);
input.Height = ExtractVideoHeight(input.RawInfo);
input.infoGathered =
true
;
}
private
string
RunProcess(
string
Parameters)
{
//create a process info
ProcessStartInfo oInfo =
new
ProcessStartInfo(
this
.FFmpegPath, Parameters);
oInfo.UseShellExecute =
false
;
oInfo.CreateNoWindow =
true
;
oInfo.RedirectStandardOutput =
true
;
oInfo.RedirectStandardError =
true
;
//Create the output and streamreader to get the output
string
output =
null
; StreamReader srOutput =
null
;
//try the process
try
{
//run the process
Process proc = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(oInfo);
proc.WaitForExit();
//get the output
srOutput = proc.StandardError;
//now put it in a string
output = srOutput.ReadToEnd();
proc.Close();
}
catch
(Exception)
{
output =
string
.Empty;
}
finally
{
//now, if we succeded, close out the streamreader
if
(srOutput !=
null
)
{
srOutput.Close();
srOutput.Dispose();
}
}
return
output;
}
public
string
FFmpegPath {
get
;
set
; }
private
string
Params {
get
;
set
; }
private
TimeSpan ExtractDuration(
string
rawInfo)
{
TimeSpan t =
new
TimeSpan(0);
Regex re =
new
Regex(
"[D|d]uration:.((\\d|:|\\.)*)"
, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Match m = re.Match(rawInfo);
if
(m.Success)
{
string
duration = m.Groups[1].Value;
string
[] timepieces = duration.Split(
new
char
[] {
':'
,
'.'
});
if
(timepieces.Length == 4)
{
t =
new
TimeSpan(0, Convert.ToInt16(timepieces[0]), Convert.ToInt16(timepieces[1]), Convert.ToInt16(timepieces[2]), Convert.ToInt16(timepieces[3]));
}
}
return
t;
}
private
double
ExtractBitrate(
string
rawInfo)
{
Regex re =
new
Regex(
"[B|b]itrate:.((\\d|:)*)"
, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Match m = re.Match(rawInfo);
double
kb = 0.0;
if
(m.Success)
{
Double.TryParse(m.Groups[1].Value,
out
kb);
}
return
kb;
}
private
string
ExtractRawAudioFormat(
string
rawInfo)
{
string
a =
string
.Empty;
Regex re =
new
Regex(
"[A|a]udio:.*"
, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Match m = re.Match(rawInfo);
if
(m.Success)
{
a = m.Value;
}
return
a.Replace(
"Audio: "
,
""
);
}
private
string
ExtractAudioFormat(
string
rawAudioFormat)
{
string
[] parts = rawAudioFormat.Split(
new
string
[] {
", "
}, StringSplitOptions.None);
return
parts[0].Replace(
"Audio: "
,
""
);
}
private
string
ExtractRawVideoFormat(
string
rawInfo)
{
string
v =
string
.Empty;
Regex re =
new
Regex(
"[V|v]ideo:.*"
, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Match m = re.Match(rawInfo);
if
(m.Success)
{
v = m.Value;
}
return
v.Replace(
"Video: "
,
""
); ;
}
private
string
ExtractVideoFormat(
string
rawVideoFormat)
{
string
[] parts = rawVideoFormat.Split(
new
string
[] {
", "
}, StringSplitOptions.None);
return
parts[0].Replace(
"Video: "
,
""
);
}
private
int
ExtractVideoWidth(
string
rawInfo)
{
int
width = 0;
Regex re =
new
Regex(
"(\\d{2,4})x(\\d{2,4})"
, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Match m = re.Match(rawInfo);
if
(m.Success)
{
int
.TryParse(m.Groups[1].Value,
out
width);
}
return
width;
}
private
int
ExtractVideoHeight(
string
rawInfo)
{
int
height = 0;
Regex re =
new
Regex(
"(\\d{2,4})x(\\d{2,4})"
, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Match m = re.Match(rawInfo);
if
(m.Success)
{
int
.TryParse(m.Groups[2].Value,
out
height);
}
return
height;
}
}
}
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EncodedVideo.cs is output package for Encode method
Source of EncodedVideo.cs
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namespace
VideoEncoder
{
public
class
EncodedVideo
{
public
string
EncodedVideoPath {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
ThumbnailPath {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
EncodingLog {
get
;
set
; }
public
bool
Success {
get
;
set
; }
}
}
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VideoFile.cs holds properties of input/source video
Source of VideoFile.cs
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using
System;
using
System.IO;
namespace
VideoEncoder
{
public
class
VideoFile
{
private
string
_Path;
public
string
Path
{
get
{
return
_Path;
}
set
{
_Path = value;
}
}
public
TimeSpan Duration {
get
;
set
; }
public
double
BitRate {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
RawAudioFormat {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
AudioFormat {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
RawVideoFormat {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
VideoFormat {
get
;
set
; }
public
int
Height {
get
;
set
; }
public
int
Width {
get
;
set
; }
public
string
RawInfo {
get
;
set
; }
public
bool
infoGathered {
get
;
set
; }
public
VideoFile(
string
path)
{
_Path = path;
Initialize();
}
private
void
Initialize()
{
this
.infoGathered =
false
;
if
(
string
.IsNullOrEmpty(_Path))
{
throw
new
Exception(
"Video file Path not set or empty."
);
}
if
(!File.Exists(_Path))
{
throw
new
Exception(
"The video file "
+ _Path +
" does not exist."
);
}
}
}
}
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Project also have two helper classes QuickAudioEncodingCommands.cs and QuickVideoEncodingCommands.cs to make video encoding easier. I simple created FFmpeg command-line snippets for easy encoding
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///
///
/// Ready made encoding commands for FFmpeg
/// Use when calling EncodeVideo commands as string encodingCommand
/// Add remove as you like
///
///
///
public
class
QuickAudioEncodingCommands
{
//mp3
public
static
string
MP3128Kbps =
"-y -ab 128k -ar 44100"
;
public
static
string
MP396Kbps =
"-y -ab 96k -ar 44100"
;
public
static
string
MP364Kbps =
"-y -ab 64k -ar 44100"
;
public
static
string
MP332Kbps =
"-y -ab 32k -ar 44100"
;
}
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Source of QuickVideoEncodingCommands.cs
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///
///
/// Ready made encoding commands for FFmpeg
/// Use when calling EncodeVideo commands as string encodingCommand
/// Add remove as you like
///
///
///
namespace
VideoEncoder
{
public
class
QuickVideoEncodingCommands
{
//-b
static
string
LQVideoBitrate =
"256k"
;
static
string
MQVideoBitrate =
"512k"
;
static
string
HQVideoBitrate =
"756k"
;
static
string
VHQVideoBitrate =
"1024k"
;
//-ab
static
string
LQAudioBitrate =
"32k"
;
static
string
MQAudioBitrate =
"64k"
;
static
string
HQAudioBitrate =
"96k"
;
static
string
VHQAudioBitrate =
"128k"
;
//-ar
static
string
LQAudioSamplingFrequency =
"22050"
;
static
string
MQAudioSamplingFrequency =
"44100"
;
static
string
HQAudioSamplingFrequency =
"44100"
;
//-s
static
string
SQCIF =
"sqcif"
;
//128x96
static
string
QCIF =
"qcif"
;
//176x144
static
string
QVGA =
"qvga"
;
//320x240
static
string
CIF =
"cif"
;
//352x288
static
string
VGA =
"vga"
;
//640x480
static
string
SVGA =
"svga"
;
//800x600
// todo
//insert logo
//
//string LogoPath ="/Path/to/transparent/png";
//string PositionX ="0";
//string PositionY ="0";
//string.Format("-vhook \"vhook/imlib2.dll -x {0} -y {1} -i {2}\"", PositionX,PositionY,LogoPath);
//flv
public
static
string
FLVLowQualityQCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f flv"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, QVGA);
public
static
string
FLVMediumQualityCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f flv"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
public
static
string
FLVHighQualityVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f flv"
, HQVideoBitrate, HQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, VGA);
public
static
string
FLVVeryHighQualitySVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f flv"
, VHQVideoBitrate, VHQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, SVGA);
public
static
string
FLVLowQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f flv"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, QVGA);
public
static
string
FLVMediumQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f flv"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
public
static
string
FLVHighQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f flv"
, HQVideoBitrate, HQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, VGA);
public
static
string
FLVVeryHighQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f flv"
, VHQVideoBitrate, VHQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, SVGA);
//3gp
public
static
string
THREEGPLowQualitySQCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -acodec aac -ac 1 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f 3gp"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, SQCIF);
public
static
string
THREEGPMediumQualityQCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -acodec aac -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f 3gp"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, QCIF);
public
static
string
THREEGPHighQualityCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -acodec aac -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f 3gp"
, VHQVideoBitrate, VHQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
//mp4
public
static
string
MP4LowQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f mp4"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, QVGA);
public
static
string
MP4MediumQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f mp4"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
public
static
string
MP4HighQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -f mp4"
, HQVideoBitrate, HQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, VGA);
public
static
string
MP4LowQualityQVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f mp4"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, QVGA);
public
static
string
MP4MediumQualityCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f mp4"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
public
static
string
MP4HighQualityVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3} -f mp4"
, HQVideoBitrate, HQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, VGA);
//WMV
public
static
string
WMVLowQualityQVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3}"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, QVGA);
public
static
string
WMVMediumQualityCIF =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3}"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
public
static
string
WMVHighQualityVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3}"
, HQVideoBitrate, HQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, VGA);
public
static
string
WMVVeryHighQualitySVGA =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2} -s {3}"
, VHQVideoBitrate, VHQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, SVGA);
public
static
string
WMVLowQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2}"
, LQVideoBitrate, LQAudioBitrate, LQAudioSamplingFrequency, QVGA);
public
static
string
WMVMediumQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2}"
, MQVideoBitrate, MQAudioBitrate, MQAudioSamplingFrequency, CIF);
public
static
string
WMVHighQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2}"
, HQVideoBitrate, HQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, VGA);
public
static
string
WMVVeryHighQualityKeepOriginalSize =
string
.Format(
"-y -vcodec wmv2 -acodec wmav2 -b {0} -ab {1} -ar {2}"
, VHQVideoBitrate, VHQAudioBitrate, HQAudioSamplingFrequency, SVGA);
}
}
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using
System;
using
VideoEncoder;
public
partial
class
_Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected
void
Page_Load(
object
sender, EventArgs e)
{
Encoder enc =
new
Encoder();
enc.FFmpegPath = Server.MapPath(
"~/FFmpeg/ffmpeg.exe"
);
VideoFile inputv =
new
VideoFile(Server.MapPath(
"~/WorkingFolder/SourceVideo.wmv"
));
string
outputVPath = Server.MapPath(
"~/WorkingFolder/OutputVideo.flv"
);
string
saveThumbnailTo = Server.MapPath(
"~/WorkingFolder/OutputVideoThumbnail.jpg"
);
// to get video thumbnail call
enc.GetVideoThumbnail(inputv,saveThumbnailTo);
// to encode video call
EncodedVideo encoded = enc.EncodeVideo(inputv, QuickVideoEncodingCommands.FLVVeryHighQualityKeepOriginalSize, outputVPath,
true
);
if
(encoded.Success)
{
Response.Write(encoded.ThumbnailPath);
Response.Write(
"<br>"
);
Response.Write(encoded.EncodedVideoPath);
Response.Write(
"<br>"
);
Response.Write(encoded.EncodingLog);
}
else
{
Response.Write(encoded.EncodingLog);
}
}
}
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This project borrowed some code from http://jasonjano.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/a-simple-c-wrapper-for-ffmpeg/