dash.js

Rocky, 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…

Prologue 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…

Introduction 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…

Introduction 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…

One 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…

Back 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…

Following 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…

“Content distributors often use multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to distribute their content to the end-users. They may upload a copy of their catalog to each CDN, or more commonly have all CDNs pull the content from a common origin….

Spoiler alert: What lies between 237.58 and 237.59 ? No, my cat did not walk over my keyboard and just entered some random numbers (I don’t even have a cat). Somewhere in between these two numbers lies a magical number….

Typically, media streaming in browser-based environments is based on unicast delivery. Streaming services such as Netflix, DAZN, Amazon Prime, Disney and Youtube use Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to deliver media segments and manifest files in a one-to-one (unicast) fashion to…