Rapid eLearning

Poor quality streaming video solutions resulted in an estimated $2.16 Billion of lost revenue in 2012 (according to the2013 Conviva Viewer Experience Report). That’s a LOT of zeros!

Since we at Microsoft Open technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) believe this is simply unacceptable, we’d like to share some ways in which developers can leverage open source code to ensure their own delivery of video is of the highest possible standard.

For this tutorial, we have chosen to use the dash.js player to deliver MPEG-DASH video to any browser that supports the W3C Media Source Extensions (MSE).

In my last post I talked about MPEG-DASH and two of the associated challenges (Intellectual Property and Rights & Codec) that must be overcome to attain widespread adoption. In this post I will focus on the remaining three challenges. They are (1) Apple and Adobe’s position on DASH, (2) content protection, and (3) interoperability and deployment.