MPEG-DASH Ecosystem Status

MPEG-DASH Ecosystem Status:
While most of IBC’s buzz was generated by the shiny HEVC + 4K couple, it was a good occasion to stand back from the hype and measure how one of the most important video standards (at least for the OTT world) had spread over the industry since last year. MPEG-DASH is not sexy (let’s remember that it’s basically a collection of XML schemes), it’s a bit boring (as it’s usually demonstrated with the Big Buck Bunny that you saw not less than 2.000 times) and it’s complex – but once you go past those defaults, you might find that its potential to simplify your workflows and boost the profitability of your video service is high…

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MPEG DASH Test Streams

MPEG DASH Test Streams - Blog - BBC R&D:
In the Broadcast and Connected Systems team here in R&D one of the things we have been looking at for a few years is adaptive bitrate technology. Recently the main focus in this area has been MPEG DASH, what profile of it to use, and how we can create content using it. The reason for today’s post is to introduce the first piece of test material we have created.

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MPEG-DASH: Making Tracks Toward Widespread Adoption

MPEG-DASH: Making Tracks Toward Widespread Adoption - Streaming Media Magazine:
The need to reach multiple platforms and consumer electronics devices has long presented a technical and business headache, not to mention a cost for service providers looking to deliver online video. the holy grail of a common file format that would rule them all always seemed a quest too far.

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DashCast

3D CineCast: DashCast:
DashCast is an open source application which allows users to:
Transcode a live/non-live stream in multiple qualities (eg. bitrate and resolution).
Segment a continuous stream in small chunks and packetize them for delivery via Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard.

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Open Source Column: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Toolset

Open Source Column: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Toolset - ACM SIGMM Records:
Multimedia content is nowadays omnipresent thanks to technological advancements in the last decades. A major driver of today’s networks are content providers like Netflix and YouTube, which do not deploy their own streaming architecture but provide their service over-the-top (OTT). Interestingly, this streaming approach performs well and adopts the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which has been initially designed for best-effort file transfer and not for real-time multimedia streaming. The assumption of former video streaming research that streaming on top of HTTP/TCP will not work smoothly due to its retransmission delay and throughput variations, has apparently be overcome as supported by.

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MPEG-DASH open source tools and cloud services

MPEG-DASH open source tools and cloud services:
Our presentation from the media web symposium 2013 in Berlin on the open source landscape around MPEG-DASH as well as on cloud-based services for MPEG-DASH

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Adobe to Integrate MPEG DASH Across Entire Lineup

Adobe to Integrate MPEG DASH Across Entire Lineup - Streaming Media Magazine:
MPEG DASH, the standardized format for adaptive video streaming over HTTP that will help broadcasters seamlessly move content to digital devices, will be part of the Adobe ecosystem from its player to its servers, says Arjun Saksena, senior project manager in this interview with Beet.TV

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Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service

Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service:
Deployed Jointly by Abertis Telecom and Nagra, the Live and VOD Multiscreen Cloud Service Leverages Harmonic ProMedia(TM) Suite and Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen.

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When Will H.265 HEVC Arrive and What Will it Mean for MPEG DASH?

When Will H.265 HEVC Arrive and What Will it Mean for MPEG DASH? - Streaming Media Magazine:
The latest draft of the high-efficiency video coding codec appears to point to early 2013 for the final specification.

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