For Promotion of MPEG-DASH

DASH Promoters Group

DASH at NAB 2012

Demos

Several DASH Promoters Group members will demonstrate MPEG-DASH demos at their booths in NAB 2012. Among them are:

  • Akamai Technologies
  • Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
  • DTS, Inc.
  • Elemental Technologies, Inc.
  • Envivo, Inc.
  • Ericsson
  • Harmonic Inc.
  • Media Excel
  • Path 1
  • RGB Networks
  • Thomson Video Networks

Please refer to NAB 2012 Catalog for the booths’ locations.

Panel Discussion

A panel discussion will also be held at NAB:

  • Title: DASH, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Better Mobile Video User Experience
  • Time & Location: Tues. Apr 17, 1-2 p.m, Room N231.
  • Description: We will discuss how MPEG-DASH is instrumental for the growth of the market and enables a common ecosystem of content and services supporting delivery to a broad range of devices such as PCs, TVs, laptops, set-top boxes, game consoles, tablets and mobiles phones.
  • Praticipants:

Mike Luby, VP Technology, Qualcomm
Will Law, Akamai, Principal Architect, Media Engineering
Thierry Fautier, Harmonic, Sr. Director, Telco Solutions
Lieven Vermaele, EBU, Director of the EBU Technical Department
Ben Rolling, AEG Digital Media, VP, Development
David J. Price, Ericsson, Head of TV Business Development
Kevin Towes, Adobe Systems Inc., Sr. Product Manager

 

 

Press Release: The official announcement of the DASH Promoters Group

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MPEG-DASH is a new standard for streaming of multimedia content over Internet.

The “DASH Promoters Group” (DASH-PG) is a group of interested parties collaborating on promotion of MPEG’s DASH specification (ISO/IEC 23009) in the industry and other standard organizations and consortia. DASH-PG is not a standardization group and will not develop any specific technical output that can be referenced by industry.

Objectives

DASH-PG will focus on the following tasks:

  • Promoting the utilization of MPEG’s DASH standard in various standard organizations and consortia;
  • Aligning, harmonizing and coordinating of DASH standard development and its related standard developments in various standard organizations,
  • Seeking to avoid fragmentation of the multimedia HTTP streaming market by promoting careful and limited profiling of DASH standards [to be created by other standards development organizations] and by promoting the use of common profiles across industry and various standard organizations; and
  • Facilitating interoperability tests and plug-fests to demonstrate the usability and completeness of the DASH standard.

DASH-PG will not engage in any of the following practices in particular:

  • Developing any technical specification;
  • Defining and/or promoting any de-facto profile, i.e. a profile that is not endorsed by a standard body or industry forum.