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 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 Stefan PhamThis blog post is an update to “Is this the end of ‘cenc’? An overview of DRM/Codec support in 2021”. If you still need to support Smart TV devices older than 2020 it is still not the end of ‘cenc’,…
Authors Daniel SilhavyAs part of our work on dash.js we are involved in numerous interesting discussions and face various exciting problems. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is definitely one of the most challenging areas in the context of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming and…
Authors Mariana AvelinoFAMIUM SAND is an analytics tool for content providers to monitor the performance of their streaming services. In this blog post, we continue to explore SAND’s debugging capabilities using two more concrete examples. For our first example check out Part…
Authors Mariana AvelinoIn the second blog post of the SAND series, we will take a detailed look at the different FAMIUM SAND dashboards: Real-Time Monitoring, Reporting, Errors Overview, DRM/ Media/ XHR Errors and Session Details. Read on to discover what the purpose…
Authors Stefan PhamShort answer: No, it’s ‘cbcs’ time. If you would like to understand this better, keep on reading. The Common Encryption standard ISO/IEC 23001-7 is the enabler for multi-DRM-protected DASH/HLS streams. It is not quite “common encryption” as the name suggest,…
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 SilhavyHTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) are the two main formats for adaptive streaming. While HLS is natively supported on most of its target platforms (iOS and MacOSX), we need external players for MPEG-DASH. For…
