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MPEG-DASH

ISO/IEC 23009
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

DASH is a suite of standards providing a solution for the efficient and easy streaming of multimedia using existing available HTTP infrastructure (particularly servers and CDNs, but also proxies, caches, etc.).

Parts

Media Presentation Description and Segment Formats
Part: 1
DASH enables the deployment of streaming services using the existing low cost and wide-spread Internet infrastructure without any special provisions. It supports both on-demand and live streaming and has specific provisions for the MPEG-4 file format and MPEG-2 Transport Streams, but can be used with any media format.

Conformance and Reference Software
Part: 2
Reference software and conformance bitstreams for DASH

Implementation Guidelines
Part: 3
This TR contains a set of guidelines for design and deployment of streaming media delivery systems using the DASH standard covering content generation, client implementation, and examples of deployment scenarios.

Segment Encryption and Authentication
Part: 4
This standard specifies encryption and authentication of DASH segments that is format independent

Server and Network assisted DASH (SAND)
Part: 5

DASH with Server Push and WebSockets
Part: 6

Delivery of CMAF content with DASH
Part: 7

Session-based DASH Operations
Part: 8

Encoder and packager synchronization
Part: 9

Whitepapers

Publication dateTitle
2013-04-29MPEG-DASH: The Standard for Multimedia Streaming Over Internet
2015-10-23White paper on Spatial Relationship Description in MPEG DASH part 1 AMD2
2017-01-23MPEG-DASH’s New Features