utgg wrote: > I must say from a technical viewpoint I think DASH and HDS have > advantages over HLS. While HLS is very simple, it seems to be missing > very useful information at the 'manifest/master-playlist' level. Like > telling if this is on-demand or not, and what the duration is. That > means you actually need to load a playlist potentially listing zillions > of chunks to work out that information. And the playlist information > isn't very accurate (at least not in the version that the BBC are > using). That means that to properly determine the duration of a chunk > you actually need to look at the timing info in the MPEG2 ts data. The > sooner the BBC move on to DASH the better!
There is little point in comparing protocols when one is proprietary, when shortcomings are found - all Apple needs to do is announce a new version: no committees to review, discuss, compromise and take lots of time - I think HLS V5 addresses the issues you highlighted. IIRC BBC are only using V1 or 2. See HLS V7 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-14.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
