Daniel Silhavy studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). He received his Masters degree with the completion of his thesis “Ad Insertion in MPEG-DASH” at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in 2015. Currently, he is employed as a scientific assistant and project manager at the Business Unit Future Applications and Media (FAME). He specializes in the R&D of topics dealing with IPTV and adaptive media streaming.
Authors Daniel Silhavy, David Eisenbacher, Minh Nguyen and Stefan PhamIn our daily lives, we rotate quite a few things: Our clothing (probably on a daily basis), our bedsheets (there is an ongoing discussion between my wife and me about the frequency that this needs to be done) and the…
Authors Daniel SilhavyRocky, Pirates of the Caribbean, Die Hard and The Matrix: What do all these movies have in common? All of them are often cited for having a poorly received fifth edition. With dash.js we do it differently. Thanks to all of…
Authors Daniel SilhavyI’m not a parent myself but I was a teenager once. Looking back at that time it must have been quite annoying for my mom to deal with me. Not only did I always want to eat Schnitzel for dinner,…
Authors Daniel SilhavyPrologue Imagine this: You are coming home after a long day, ready to relax on your couch with a good book or an exciting movie. You are in front of your apartment, you have your key, but you can’t open…
Authors Daniel SilhavyIntroduction When I thought about how to introduce this blog post, the first thing that popped to my mind was to start with a warning. Something like “this blog post will be technical and focus on details that are only…
Authors Daniel SilhavyIntroduction Modern MSE and EME based media players such as dash.js can run on several platforms including Desktop Browsers, Smart TVs and Smartphones. While maintaining a single code base for the majority of the relevant platforms offers great advantages, it…
Authors Daniel Silhavy, Björn Altmann and Stefan PhamOne of the core components of each Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) player is the algorithm that decides on the optimal playback quality. There are tons of research papers on the topic of ABR decisioning, but most of the developed algorithms…
Authors Daniel Silhavy and Robert SeeligerBack when I was still a student assistant and did my first steps in the media streaming industry, I had the chance to attend my first DASH-IF meetings. At this time, I was working on specific features to enable server…
Authors Daniel SilhavyFollowing the german saying “Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt” (“honour to whom honour is due”) we start this blog post a bit different – with the acknowledgements. First we would like to thank ARTE for sponsoring and supporting the development activities…
Authors Daniel SilhavyIn one of our previous blog posts we looked into playback of a multicast DASH stream in dash.js using the 5G-MAG Reference Tools. In this article, we go even a step further: Based on the availability we dynamically and seamlessly…
