DASH Forum Updates Interop Guidelines

The DASH Industry Forum has published Version 3.0 of its Interoperability Implementation Guidelines. V3.0 guidelines include interoperability points for enhanced live, on-demand and time-shifted video streaming using AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265 codecs. The guidelines support default HE-AAC and optional multichannel audio codecs, SMPTE-TT and CEA-608/708 closed caption formats, as well as common encryption (CENC) to support various digital rights management (DRM) systems.

Based on the second edition of the ISO/IEC 23009-1 (MPEG-DASH) standard, and incorporating enhanced live and ad insertion features, the guidelines are intended to enable deployment of live services and dynamic ad insertion with a single set of technologies. The DASH-IF V3.0 guidelines are available at http://dashif.org/white-papers/.