Before he explained how to create a DASH-264 player at the recent Streaming Media West conference in Los Angeles, Mike Labriola, a senior consultant for Digital Primates, explained why DASH was a better solution for online video.
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I recently had the pleasure of taking part on a panel session on the subject of MPEG DASH at Streaming Media Europe in London. I was joined by Cornelia Patzlsperger, Interactive Solutions, Interlake Media GmbH; Alex Zambelli, Media Platform Evangelist, Microsoft; and Tristan Leteurte, CEO, Anevia, to discuss MPEG DASH’s key features, its rate of adoption, the challenges for a wider adoption and the opportunities and impacts on adaptive streaming.
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“The VLC Android App is now available through the Google Play Store. Unfortunately there are currently only the old MPD’s supported such as mtbike.”
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Video service providers have become enamored of adaptive bit rate streaming as a way to deliver video to tablets and smartphones, but not everyone believes the technology will become the primary way video is delivered to the home.
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) “is not ready for primetime TV,” declared Pieter Liefooghe, chief solution architect and solution line manager at the video solutions and integration organization of Alcatel-Lucent, during a panel on the topic at last week’s Managing & Monetizing OTT Video event in Boston. HAS is “okay for a single-stream, OTT-style of service, but as a basis of a primetime TV service, it’s a challenging proposition,” he added.
But this doesn’t mean HAS will never be suitable for primetime TV, as the shortcomings identified by Liefooghe relate to “out-of-the-box” HAS technology. He said, for example, that AlcaLu has identified some technologies and techniques that can be done on the routing platform and the content delivery network (CDN) to boost HAS performance enough to address some of its technical shortcomings. And he insisted there are ways to pare delays down to six seconds while still guaranteeing continuous playback.
“There’s a future for HAS as the new RTP,” Liefooghe concluded.
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