DASH (MPEG-DASH Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP)

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Written by BlazingCDN

September 24, 2024

To enable streaming in DASH format, add the / media = dash / parameter to the link. The link will return an xml manifest to the manifest.mpd file.

Various options are available::

  • /media=dash/ – segment size is 10 seconds, without keyframe alignment
  • /media=dash2/ – segment size is 2 seconds, without keyframe alignment
  • /media=dash5/ – segment size is 5 seconds, without keyframe alignment
  • /media=dashA/ – average segment size is 10 seconds, keyframe alignment enabled.

The actual segment size will vary, if there are more than ten seconds between key frames – there may be empty segments.

Example:

				
					http://video.blazingcdn2.net/key=rF2ePSWHNL5wirg307aOqQ/media=dash/output.mp4