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Shaka Packager is a tool and a media packaging SDK for
[DASH](http://dashif.org/) and [HLS](https://developer.apple.com/streaming/)
packaging and encryption. It can prepare and package media content for online
streaming.
Shaka Packager supports:
- Both Video-On-Demand and Live.
- Streaming formats:
- [DASH](http://dashif.org/)
- [HLS](https://developer.apple.com/streaming/)
- Key systems:
- [Widevine](http://www.widevine.com/)
- [PlayReady](https://www.microsoft.com/playready/
- [Fairplay](https://developer.apple.com/streaming/fps/
- Encryption standards:
- [CENC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_Common_Encryption)
- [SAMPLE-AES](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/HLS_Sample_Encryption/Intro/Intro.html)
- Media Containers and codecs
| Codecs | ISO-BMFF | WebM | MPEG2-TS | WVM | Packed Audio²|
|:-----------------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:|:-----------:|:------------:|
| H264 (AVC) | I / O | - | I / O | I | - |
| H265 (HEVC) | I / O | - | I | - | - |
| VP8 | I / O | I / O | - | - | - |
| VP9 | I / O | I / O | - | - | - |
| AAC | I / O | - | I / O | I | O |
| Dolby AC3/EAC3 | I / O | - | I | - | O |
| DTS | I / O | - | - | - | - |
| FLAC | I / O | - | - | - | - |
| Opus | I / O³ | I / O | - | - | - |
| Vorbis | - | I / O | - | - | - |
NOTES:
- I for input and O for output.
- ²: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-23#section-3.4
- ³: Opus support in ISO-BMFF is experimental.
- Subtitles
- WebVTT in both text form and embedded in MP4
- TTML in text form (DASH only)
- Platforms
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- Cross compiling for ARM is also supported.
<sup>1: Limited support</sup>
# Getting Shaka Packager
There are several ways you can get Shaka Packager.
- Using [Docker](https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker).
Instructions are available
[here](https://github.com/google/shaka-packager/blob/master/docs/source/docker_instructions.md).
- Get prebuilt binaries from
[release](https://github.com/google/shaka-packager/releases).
- Built from source, see
[Build Instructions](https://github.com/google/shaka-packager/blob/master/docs/source/build_instructions.md)
for details.
# Useful Links
- [Announcement List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/shaka-packager-users)
(join for release announcements and surveys)
- [Documentation](https://google.github.io/shaka-packager/html/)
- [Tutorials](https://google.github.io/shaka-packager/html/tutorials/tutorials.html)
- Several open source players:
- [DASH and HLS on Web: Shaka Player](https://github.com/google/shaka-player)
- [DASH on Web: dash.js](https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js)
- [HLS on Web: hls.js](https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js)
- [DASH and HLS on Android: ExoPlayer](https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer)
# Contributing
If you have improvements or fixes, we would love to have your contributions.
See https://github.com/google/shaka-packager/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md for
details.