Players and Playback
Overview
It’s the end of the line for the streaming video workflow. It’s where all the efforts in delivery tuning, encoding optimization, and other content transformations come to a head. But there are innumerable technology challenges once it leaves the network and hits the viewer’s screen. These challenges may deal with the player itself, as a piece of software on a device, or with the playback experience: how users navigate, manipulate, and consume content. And although there is plenty of measurement happening at the player, there is little consistency across multiple playback experiences on a myriad of devices. In this study group, participating members and selected outside parties will seek to document those challenges and assess the technology player landscape in an effort to provide consistency to the industry. It is from this documentation and analysis that best practices, guidelines, and even specifications will arise to provide possible solutions.
Objectives
The Streaming Video Technology Alliance Player and Playback Study Group has the following objectives. First, to understand the technical challenges across the player and device ecosystem. Second, to document those challenges and identify possible projects for best practices, guidelines, and specifications.
Chairs
Current Projects
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.
Presented by Ali C. Begen
Presented by Sergey Arsenyev
Documents
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Participating Companies
