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…
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…
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), MPEG-DASH requires external players. For browser-based environments,…
