Author Archives: Christian Timmerer

Vote for libdash as Best MPEG-DASH Product

Please help us and vote for our libdash library as best MPEG-DASH product in the reader’s choice award voting of Streaming Media. As you probably know, libdash is the reference library of the MPEG-DASH standard and is the enabler for … Continue reading

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SVC Bitstream Reordering for SVC-DASH

Michael Grafl from the ITEC-Team has released his new tools for Scalable Video Coding (SVC) bitstream reordering to support Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). Demultiplexer for SVC-DASH. Splits the SVC bitstream into chunks, one per layer. Also generates an … Continue reading

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Adaptive Video over ICN @ ICNRG, IETF'87

We presented our adaptive video over ICN research in the ICNRG at the 87th IETF Meeting in Berlin. Here you can find our presentation: Title: Adaptive Video over ICN Authors: Stefan Lederer, Christian Timmerer, Cedric Westphal and Christopher Mueller Abstract: This … Continue reading

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DASH/2.0 @ ICME 2013

Title: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP/2.0 Authors: Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Christian Timmerer and Hermann Hellwagner Abstract: MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a new streaming standard that has been recently ratified as an international standard (IS). In comparison … Continue reading

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libdash with HTTP/2.0 (SPDY) support

We have recently enabled HTTP/2.0 (SPDY) support in an own branch [1]. Additionally, we provide a part of our DASH dataset over HTTP/2.0 (SPDY). The MPDs are already included in the sample media player of libdash and available here. [1] … Continue reading

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Recent and Upcoming Publications, Conferences & Awards

Best Paper at QCMan Christian Sieber, Tobias Hoßfeld, Thomas Zinner, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Christian Timmerer, “Implementation and User-centric Comparison of a Novel Adaptation Logic for DASH with SVC,” In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Experience Centric Management … Continue reading

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MPEG-DASH open source tools/cloud services at Media Web Symposium

Berlin, Germany, Mar. 2013: We’ve been invited to the Media Web Symposium of Fraunhofer Fokus in Berlin and presented the open source landscape around MPEG-DASH as well as cloud-based services for MPEG-DASH. MPEG-DASH Open Source tools and Cloud Services from … Continue reading

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Distributed DASH Dataset released at MMSys 2013

Oslo, Norway, Feb/Mar 2013: we released our distributed DASH dataset at MMSys 2013. Please cite its usage as follows: Lederer, S., Mueller, C., Timmerer, C., Concolato, C., Le Feuvre, J., and Fliegel, K., 2013. Distributed DASH dataset. In Proceedings of … Continue reading

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libdash 2.1

libdash 2.1 release is available including comprehensive documentation and a QT based graphical sample player. New Features QT Sampleplayer   Comprehensive doxygen documentation of the library   Started the development of the libdash middleware Bugfixes Fixed parsing MPDs with comments … Continue reading

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libdash 2.0 – Candidate to become the MPEG-DASH reference client library

libdash was already part of ISO/IEC 23009-2, Information Technology Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) Part 2: Conformance and Reference Software as sample client and it is now a candidate to become the MPEG-DASH reference client library. So please provide … Continue reading

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