derhuerst

#!/bin/bash

# This script takes any (high resolution) video file as input and converts it to WebM (VP8 & Vorbis) and MP4 (H264 & AAC) for HTML5 <video>. For each format, it creates a high quality (`-hq`) and a low quality (`-lq`) version.
# ffmpeg has to be installed, see http://docs.sublimevideo.net/encode-videos-for-the-web for more instructions.
# Usage: videoToWeb.sh <inputfile>

# This is heavily inspired by
# - https://github.com/kornl/video-conversion/blob/master/convert_video_for_html_5.sh
# - https://github.com/mickro/video2html5/blob/master/video2html5.sh
# - http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html#webm-cli

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000