SVTA Projects
Below are all the SVTA projects either underway or completed by various Streaming Video Technology Alliance working groups and committees as well as any projects created in cooperation with other organizations. Click on a project to learn more. If you aren’t a member but want to get involved, join today!
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Current SVTA Projects
Players and Playback
Architectures for Multi-CDN Switching
Issues with CDNs can impact QoE at the player if a specific CDN is performing poorly but still being used…
Write
Edge Storage
Cache Management Interface
This document outlines the motivation, key use cases, and architecture for a cache management interface to facilitate integration between content…
Write
Players and Playback
Common Media Library
Define
Open Caching
Configuration Interface API Version 2
This project will provide a document that defines an API which can be used to deploy and manage caching configurations…
Write
Measurement/QoE
Distributed Request Tracing
This project focuses on the integration of distributed request tracing into the streaming video workflow…
Write
Immersive Video
eXtended Reality, Deep Dive into Emergent Technology and its Practical Value
The pace of XR innovation is relentless and CSP’s and Content Owners are feeling overwhelmed. They know that they must…
Write
Live Streaming
Measuring Latency in ABR Streaming
This project will test the recommendations made in the document, Best Practices for Reducing Live Streaming Latency, and publish the…
Test
Advertising and Metadata
Metadata and Advertising Decisioning
This is a multifaceted project that explores the state of contextual targeting data in the industry today, identifies gaps in…
Define
Open Caching
Open Caching Capacity Interface
This project will provide a document that defines an API which can be used to enable the programmatic retrieval of…
Review
Open Caching
Open Caching Logging Specification
This specification provides a framework for communication of CDN transactional logs between Open Caching participants to satisfy billing and operational…
Review
Open Caching
Open Caching Testbed
This is an implementation of the Open Caching specifications in a test-bed for member companies to test and ensure their…
Test
Privacy and Protection
OTT Streaming Security Checklist
This will be an end-to-end security checklist that an OTT provider, vendor and programmer can reference as they seek to…
Write
Networking and Transport
QUIC/HTTP3 Testing and Evaluation Environment PoC
This PoC will evaluate the testing approach best suited for evaluating QUIC as a streaming video delivery pipeline and will…
Test
Immersive Video
Resolving User-Experience Issues for VR/XR Content by Customizing Congestion Control Logic to the VR/XR Service and to the Network
The main goal of this PoC is to resolve user-experience issues for VR/XR content by customizing congestion control logic to…
Test
Live Streaming
Scaling for Live Event Distribution
Successfully scaling live streaming events is challenging and involves consideration of multiple components within the video streaming workflow. This project…
Test
Industry References Committee
Streaming Video Wiki
Technical information about streaming video (standards, specs, terminology, companies, people) are scattered around the web. There is no single source.…
Write
Measurement/QoE
Video Quality Tags (VQT)
This project will help to further improve CDN’s video streaming detection, diagnosis & optimization capabilities by publishing a set of…
Test
Joint SVTA Projects
Below are SVTA projects which are being accomplished jointly with another organization. Click on a project to learn more.
Joint
Common Token Standards Project
This is a joint project between the SVTA and the CTA-WAVE group for standardizing CDN tokens.
Write
Measurement/QoE
CTA-WAVE/SVTA Streaming Media Tracing Standards
This is a joint project between the SVTA and CTA-WAVE group for standardizing Streaming Media Tracing technology.
Write
Past SVTA Projects
Below are SVTA projects completed by various Streaming Video Technology Alliance working groups and committees. Click on a project to learn more.
Networking and Transport
5G and Edge Cloud for Streaming Video
This project will produce a document which explores the use cases for 5G and Edge Compute and streaming video, how…
Completed
Advertising
Ad Creative Signaling in DASH and HLS
As more distributors utilize interleaved/stitched presentation architectures for the exhibition of advertisements, a clear and interoperable signaling mechanism for the…
Completed
Measurement/QoE
Best Practices for End-to-End Workflow Monitoring
Completed
Live Streaming
Best Practices for Reducing Live Streaming Latency
This project will produce a document that analyzes key technologies and components throughout the streaming video workflow, assessing the potential…
Completed
Open Caching
Configuration Interface API
This project will provide a document that defines an API which can be used to deploy and manage caching configurations…
Completed
Advertising
End-to-End Ad Monitoring
This proof-of-concept project is intended to demonstrate how to create a holistic view of the delivery and consumption of ads…
Completed
Immersive Video
Extended Reality Overview Paper
Completed
Open Caching
Footprint and Capabilities (FCI) API
This document will be two parts: the introduction and description of the API and the data model.
Ratification Phase 2 (Board Review)
Edge Storage
Home Storage Open Caching Node
This project will produce functional and interface specifications for interoperability so that the Home Storage Open Caching Node (HS-OCN) can…
Completed
Metadata
Metadata Landscape
The metadata ingest landscape is complex with different definitions, standards, and actors. It is challenging to get an overview when…
Completed
Open Caching
Open Caching Relayed Token Authentication
This project will provide a document that explains how URL Tokenization can be accomplished within the Open Caching framework.
Completed
Open Caching
Open Caching Request Routing Functional Specification (Version 2.0)
This project will provide an updated Request Routing Functional Specification document to address the Manifest Rewrite method.
Completed
Immersive Video
Recommendations for Mitigating Latency in Streaming VR Video Delivery Workflows
This project is a combination of PoC and document. The PoC will seek to first measure and then, through optimization…
Completed
Open Caching
Request Routing Interface
The said Recursive mode of delegation (per the CDNi terminology) necessitates an interface between the upstream request router and the…
Ratification Phase 1 (Comment Window)
Privacy and Protection
Securing Media Players
Completed
Privacy and Protection
Securing Streaming Video
This project is intended to develop a document which provides a clear picture of the available technologies and solutions to…
Completed
Advertising
Streaming Advertising 101
The Streaming Advertising 101 project will create a detailed document that can be used as a comprehensive learning guide for…
Completed
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