BBC R&D Adaptive Bitrate Test Media

Description

The BBC Research & Development department offers MPEG-DASH test media for developers and researchers.

BBC R&D Adaptive Bitrate Test Media is cataloged in Protocols & Transport, Adaptive Streaming, and DASH.

TiyuntsongSelf-play reinforcement learning + GAN-based adaptive bitrate streaming algorithm implementation (TensorFlow/tflearn), companion to arXiv:1…
NeSt-VR: Network-aware Step-wise Adaptive Bitrate for VR Streaming over Wi-FiAcademic paper proposing a network-aware step-wise ABR algorithm for VR video streaming over Wi-Fi networks.
Point Cloud Streaming with Latency-Driven Implicit Adaptation using MoQ2025 paper applying Media-over-QUIC (MoQ) transport to low-latency adaptive point-cloud streaming.
dash-analyzerPython tool for analyzing MPEG-DASH streams, parses MPD structure for inspection.
FOSDEM 2020: Which Video Network Streaming Protocol Should I Use?FOSDEM Open Media devroom talk comparing SRT, RTSP, RIST, WebRTC, HLS and DASH for live video network streaming use cases.
Performance of Low-Latency HTTP-based Streaming PlayersMMSys'21 paper comparing AVPlayer, Shaka, HLS.js, and Dash.js performance under LL-HLS and LL-DASH.
The Analysis of DASH Manifest OptimizationsAmazon-authored ACM Green Multimedia Systems workshop paper analyzing MPD manifest size optimization techniques.
PantomimeSwift M3U8 parser supporting both master and media playlists.
low-latency-dash-ffmpegDockerized ffmpeg reference configuration for LL-DASH per-frame moof chunk streaming.
FOSDEM 2024: Streaming Live Using RIST On Demand to ThousandsFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk on a real-world RIST architecture achieving 500ms glass-to-glass latency at scale, comparing RIST vs QUIC.