Author Archives: Christian Timmerer

PV 2012: Towards Peer-Assisted Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

At the IEEE International Packet Video Workshop 2012 at Munich, Germany we presented our paper “Towards Peer-Assisted Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP”. Here you can find the presentation: Towards Peer-Assisted Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP View more presentations from Stefan … Continue reading

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VLC Plugin uses now Persistent Connections and Pipelining

The VLC plugin uses now HTTP/1.1 persistent connections and pipelining. The patches are officially part of VLC and can be used with the latest nightly builds or with a self compiled version from the git repository. Moreover we have created … Continue reading

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DASH-JS – A JavaScript-based DASH library for Google Chrome

Our new DASH-JS implementation is now online! DASH-JS is a seamless integration of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)  into the Web using the HTML5 video element. Moreover, it is based on JavaScript which uses the Media Source API of … Continue reading

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MPEG-DASH MPD Validator released

We are happy to announce our MPEG-DASH MPD Validator which is available here. The validator offers the possibility to validate DASH files. This can either be done via file upload, URL or direct input of the description. Furthermore, the validator … Continue reading

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libdash supports now persistent connections and pipelining

libdash supports now HTTP/1.1 persistent connections and pipelining. Moreover, the HTTPConnectionManager maintains a pool of connections that will be used in a round robin manner. Currently, we only use one per host but in the future the user will be … Continue reading

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An Evaluation of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP in Vehicular Environments

Our presentation at ACM MMSys/MoVid 2012: Christopher Müller, Stefan Lederer and Christian Timmerer, “An Evaluation of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP in Vehicular Environments”, In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Mobile Video, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 24, … Continue reading

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ACM Multimedia Systems 2012 Presentation

At the ACM Multimedia Systems 2012 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina we presented our paper “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP dataset” describing our DASH dataset available on this website (here). Here you can find the presentation: MPEG-DASH Dataset MMSys 2012 … Continue reading

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Poster from the ACM Multimedia Systems 2012

Our paper “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Dataset” has been presented at the ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) 2012 as dataset paper in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Furthermore we presented our paper “An Evaluation of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP in … Continue reading

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VLC 2.0 major release with basic DASH support

VLC 2.0 “Twoflower” is now available. This official release contains basic support for DASH which means that only the basic-cm profile is supported. The newer features like dataset compatibly and buffer will be part of the next minor releases. Anyway … Continue reading

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VLC Plugin is now officially compatible with the Dataset

All previous patches are now officially part of VLC which will make the plugin fully compatible with the dataset out of the box. Moreover also the buffer and download thread patches as well as some minor fixes have been applied … Continue reading

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