go-mp4
go-mp4 is Go library for reading and writing MP4.
Integration with your Go application
You can parse MP4 file as follows:
// expand all boxes
_, err := mp4.ReadBoxStructure(file, func(h *mp4.ReadHandle) (interface{}, error) {
fmt.Println("depth", len(h.Path))
// Box Type (e.g. "mdhd", "tfdt", "mdat")
fmt.Println("type", h.BoxInfo.Type.String())
// Box Size
fmt.Println("size", h.BoxInfo.Size)
if h.BoxInfo.IsSupportedType() {
// Payload
box, _, err := h.ReadPayload()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
str, err := mp4.Stringify(box, h.BoxInfo.Context)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
fmt.Println("payload", str)
// Expands children
return h.Expand()
}
return nil, nil
})// extract specific boxes
boxes, err := mp4.ExtractBox(file, nil, mp4.BoxPath{mp4.BoxTypeMoov(), mp4.BoxTypeTrak(), mp4.BoxTypeTkhd()})You can create additional box definition as follows:
func BoxTypeXxxx() BoxType { return StrToBoxType("xxxx") }
func init() {
AddBoxDef(&Xxxx{}, 0)
}
type Xxxx struct {
FullBox `mp4:"extend"`
UI32 uint32 `mp4:"size=32"`
ByteArray []byte `mp4:"size=8,len=dynamic"`
}
func (*Xxxx) GetType() BoxType {
return BoxTypeXxxx()
}Command Line Tool
Install mp4tool as follows:
go get github.com/abema/go-mp4/mp4tool
mp4tool -helpFor example, mp4tool dump MP4_FILE_NAME command prints MP4 box tree as follows:
[moof] Size=504
[mfhd] Size=16 Version=0 Flags=0x000000 SequenceNumber=1
[traf] Size=480
[tfhd] Size=28 Version=0 Flags=0x020038 TrackID=1 DefaultSampleDuration=9000 DefaultSampleSize=33550 DefaultSampleFlags=0x1010000
[tfdt] Size=20 Version=1 Flags=0x000000 BaseMediaDecodeTimeV1=0
[trun] Size=424 ... (use -a option to show all)
[mdat] Size=44569 Data=[...] (use -mdat option to expand)

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