This module is a loader for the test video-files contained in the video-testdata package Those can be used to test video-conversion to different formats.

Usage

Syntax: const file = await loadData("<filename>",["<innerFile>"], [options])

The call returns a promise that resolves to the target file once it is ready. If the file is a tar-file, it is automatically extracted and file will point to a temporary directory containing the extracted data. If the file is a tar-file, an innerFile may be provided. file will then point to this file within the extracted tar-file.

Options

"options" is an object that can have the following properties

• to: The file to copy the media file to, or the name of the directory to extract the tar file to.

Examples

var loadData = require("video-testData-loader");

const file = await loadData("2-video-unstreamable.mp4")

// ... or,

const file = await loadData("2-video-unstreamable.mp4", { to: "testTmp/video.mp4" })

// ... or, for tar-files ...

const file = await loadData("panasonic-lumix-dmc-zx3.tar","PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/00000.MTS")

// ... or ... ,

const directory = loadData("panasonic-lumix-dmc-zx3.tar")
// directory is the root of the extracted tar-file

Files

The following files can be used

0-novideo.mp4

This file is not actually a video but a text file containing "123". Can be used as "broken" video"

1-video-streamable.mp4

An mp4-video with H264/AAC streams with the "moov" box near the beginning, so that ffmpeg can perform a streaming decode

2-video-unstreamable.mp4

An mp4-video with H264/AAC streams with the "moov" box not near the beginning, so that ffmpeg does not accept this video via stdin.

panasonic-lumix-dmc-zx3.tar

A tar-file containing the sd-card content of Panasonic Lumix after recording a single video. In particular, the inner file PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/00000.MTS is a AVHCD MPEG2-Transport- Stream file.

samsung-smx-f40bp-edc.tar

A tar-file containing the sd-card content of Samsung-Camcorder after recording a single video. In particular, the inner file VIDEO/100VIDEO/SDV_0999.MP4 is a mp4-file.