Authors Robert SeeligerThe Impact of Bitrate, Resolution, and Beyond In an era where streaming has evolved into an essential and omnipresent aspect of our everyday routines, the relevance of the ecological footprint of our multimedia entertainment is gaining prominence. Behind the scenes…
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 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 Görkem Güclü, Sinh An and Stefan PhamThe initial request to support preview images or so-called thumbnails in ExoPlayer was made in a GitHub issue in 2018. Throughout the years many requests and upvotes for this feature were seen. More than five years later we are happy…
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…
Authors Daniel Silhavy“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….
