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Libdash

libdash is a computer software library which provides an object-oriented interface to the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard. It is also the official reference implementation of the ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH standard, and maintained by the Austrian company bitmovin. The libdash source code is open source, published at GitHub, and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+.

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Source
libdash
Developersbitmovin, ITEC Team
Initial releaseFebruary 1, 2013 (2013-02-01)
Stable release
2.21 / 3 April 2013 (3 April 2013)
Written inC++2
TypeMultimedia framework
LicenseGNU LGPL
Websitebitmovin.com Edit this on Wikidata
Repositorygithub.com/bitmovin/libdash

libdash is a computer software library which provides an object-oriented interface to the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard. It is also the official reference implementation of the ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH standard,3 and maintained by the Austrian company bitmovin. The libdash source code is open source, published at GitHub,4 and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+.5

The project contains a Qt-based sample multimedia player that is based on ffmpeg which uses libdash for the playback of DASH streams.

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References

  1. "Release 2.2". 3 April 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. "Developer Documentation". Archived from the original on 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  3. "libdash official MPEG-DASH Reference Software". 18 September 2013.
  4. "libdash Source Code Repository". GitHub.
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