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 and Stefan PhamAs head developers of the dash.js project we are frequently facing situations in which we have to evaluate if the failure of a DASH stream is caused by an actual bug in the implementation of the dash.js player or by…
Authors Daniel Silhavy and Robert SeeligerMy colleagues and I love watching football, so I figured that quoting a former NFL player should be a good way to start a blog post: If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. Terrell Owens I…
Authors Daniel SilhavyIn times of Corona not only are big conventions shifting to online meetings but Fraunhofer FOKUS (and many other companies,) have transitioned their regular town hall meetings to virtual settings as well. In this blog post we will explain how…
Authors Daniel SilhavyHTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) are the two main formats used for adaptive streaming. While HLS is natively supported on most of its target platforms (iOS and MacOSX), external players are needed for MPEG-DASH….
Authors Stefan Pham and Daniel SilhavyEven with improved Internet connections and higher bandwidth, there will always be scenarios where not enough bandwidth is available for media streaming. This is especially the case with multiple clients that are connected to the same network bottleneck, e.g. WiFi…
Authors Daniel SilhavyHTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) are the two main formats used for adaptive streaming. While HLS is natively supported on most of its target platforms (iOS and MacOSX), external players are needed for MPEG-DASH….
Authors Daniel SilhavyHTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) are the two main formats used for adaptive streaming. While HLS is natively supported on most of its target platforms (iOS and MacOSX), external players are needed for MPEG-DASH….
Authors Daniel Silhavy and Stefan PhamThe Media Source Extensions (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) are two APIs that enable playback of Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected adaptive streaming content in a browser. Both APIs are supported in all four major browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge and…
Authors Daniel SilhavyFFmpeg is a great tool for video processing, it basically allows us to manipulate videos any way we like. Depending on the concrete use case, however, it can be challenging to assemble the right command. In this blog post, I…
Authors Daniel SilhavyIn 2016, Netflix introduced the concept of per-title-encoding. In a very interesting blog post and a detailed paper, Netflix described their findings and how the results can be interpreted. In this blog post, I would like to describe my understanding of per-title encoding and…
