Live streaming enjoyment for multi-screen applications

Whether you missed a TV show or a concert live recording of your favorite band: the Internet is a treasure trove of videos and all kinds of other multimedia content. Usually this content is streamed – that is, not saved on the computer, rather played directly over the browser in real time. But this method has a major drawback: if the available bit rate deteriorates, transmission quality suffers and the resulting video juddering and interruptions test the user’s patience. It can only be avoided if you match the video quality to the bit rate currently available. Although this means that individual sequences are of poorer quality, it guarantees a fluid stream of images. However, the data must be in a certain format for such adaptive streaming: namely, the ISO “MPEG DASH” (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) standard, which has been available since 2012.

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