Latest advances in the development of the open-source player dash.js

Abstract

The trend to consume high-quality videos over the internet lead to a high demand for sophisticated and robust video player implementations. dash.js is a prominent option for implementing production grade DASH-based applications and products, and is also widely used for academic research purposes. In this paper, we introduce the latest additions and improvements to dash.js. We focus on various features and use cases such as player performance and robustness, low latency streaming, metric reporting and digital rights management. The features and improvements introduced in this paper provide great benefits not only for media streaming clients, but also for the server-side components involved in the media stream process.