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Overview

Although many in the streaming video industry would say that “we have VOD figured out,” live linear streaming is a completely different animal. Plagued by a host of challenges ranging from scaling, to ad insertion, to “time behind live,” to multi-platform distribution, content providers are feverishly trying to provide a solution for their viewers that either closely mimics traditional broadcast or, in some ways, even exceeds it. And in many cases, this may require interface with traditional broadcast standards such as SCTE which have never been applied to a streaming environment. In this working group, participating members work to tackle those challenges with specifications and best practices that address how to provide a high-quality live stream to a global audience.

Objectives

The Streaming Video Technology Alliance Live Streaming Working Group has the following objectives: to define and propose industry best practices that address the technical challenges impeding the adoption and implement of Adaptive Streaming of live content; leverage existing protocols and/or functionalities in building solutions for a host of topics including source-to-consumer latency, efficient and effective methods for large audience distribution, and interoperability standards and PoC implementations for OTA/OTT simulcast experiences; to collaborate with other working groups, like Open Caching and Network and Transport, to ensure alignment with technical activities.

Chairs

Current Projects

Proofs of Concept

This group has not initiated or completed any proofs of concept.

Presentations

Below are presentations delivered during working group sessions. Click on the presentation name to open it (many files are for members only and will require authentication) and a presenter name to view their profile. Note: if a presenter’s profile is not public, it will redirect to their LinkedIn page.

Carlsbad F2F: Live Streaming WG slides

Presented by Steve Miller-Jones

Encoder Contribution

Presented by Kevin Johns

Live Ingest Proposal

Presented by Kevin Johns

Live Streaming WG Lisbon - PoC Proposal Slides

Presented by Brent Yates

Presented by Richard Oesterreicher

Live Streaming WG Lisbon Presentation

Presented by Patrick Gendron

Presented by Steve Miller-Jones

Live Streaming WG Session

Presented by Alicia Pritchett

Presented by Dan Drew

Presented by Patrick Gendron

Live Streaming Working Group Session

Presented by Alicia Pritchett

Presented by Dan Drew

Presented by Florence Agboma

Presented by Patrick Gendron

Live Streaming WG Project Update

Presented by Dan Drew

Presented by Alicia Pritchett

Presented by Patrick Gendron

Presented by Florence Agboma

Presented by Michael Demb

WebRTC Overview from F2F Feb 2019

Presented by Steve Miller-Jones

Live Streaming WG Session

Presented by Alicia Pritchett

Presented by Dan Drew

Presented by Florence Agboma

Live Streaming Working Group Session Presentation

Presented by Alicia Pritchett

Presented by Dan Drew

Presented by Florence Agboma

Documents

Published

Best Practices for Reducing Live Streaming Latency

Over-the-Top (OTT) video streaming is accelerating towards a tipping point where broadcasters are simulcasting their content to both OTT and traditional broadcast customers. This has raised concern with the latency delta between broadcast and OTT streams. In addition, new OTT use cases have emerged that demand the lowest possible latency. This paper explores techniques available to streaming video distributors to reduce the latency of their streaming content from encoder to screen.

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