2016 Munich Face to face meeting

General

The 2016 European face-to-face meeting of the dash.js project on GitHub. This meeting is open to all dash.js contributors, committers and interested parties to present/discuss architectural, feature, scope and planning input for the project. The meeting is free to attend. Lunch will be provided.

Thanks to Maxdome for hosting this event.

Registration: Please register your attendance at Eventbrite.

Where: Medienallee 4 - 85774 Unterföhring, Germany - View Map

When: May 19, 2016

• 08:30 - 09:00 – REGISTRATION, WELCOME COFFEE
• 09:00 - 12:30 – MORNING SESSION
• 12:30 - 13:30 – LUNCH, NETWORKING
• 13:30 - 17:00 – AFTERNOON SESSION
• 19:00 – 21:00 - GROUP DINNER

Agenda wishlist

Please add your proposed agenda items to the list below. The actual order will be adjusted prior to the meeting.

1. APIS for playing back from live - time vs segment. Discuss minimum APIs necessary and default values.
2. baseURL - discuss segment retry APIs and priorities. Establish consensus around which fail-over schemes should be offered and the APIs necessary to sustain those.
3. Demo by Technische Universitaet Berlin, who have developed a low delay live streaming adaptation algorithm.
4. Competitive discussion - dash.js vs Shaka vs Bitmovin. Where is dash.js behind? Where does it need to improve?
5. Support for webM via webm.js - not compatible with current dash.js (#1301). Should we continue support? Who is interested in working on this initiative?
6. VirtualBuffer - proposal for removal. Why? What benefits? Can it be replaced with a mapping class that maps time ranges/bitrates/resolutions.
7. Allow fast bitrate switching - fetch next segment ahead of playhead rather than front of buffer. Rules for doing this.
8. Under what conditions when switching periods can we re-use the SourceBuffers and thereby achieve a seamless switch? How to add this feature to existign workflow?