[Icecast-dev] MPEG DASH

[Thomas B. Ruecker]

Hi,

On 11/02/14 10:34, Yannick "Modah" Gouez wrote:
> DASH being an open standard, doesnt make it necessarily patent free  ?
>
> http://dashif.org/about-dash-industry-forum/
>

By analogy OOXML is called an open standard too. Still there are
apparently significant IPR risks involved.

I wrote solid IPR evaluation for a reason.


Cheers

Thomas



>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:12 AM, "Thomas B. Rücker"
> <thomas.ruecker at tieto.com <mailto:thomas.ruecker at tieto.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 11/02/14 10:00, Yannick "Modah" Gouez wrote:
>     > Hi guys,
>     >
>     > I was wondering if there were any plans for MPEG DASH support in
>     icecast ?
>
>     I've been loosely following the libDASH development, making Icecast
>     align with that may be possible, though I have not evaluated this
>     properly.
>     Anything MPEG is out of the question though as that entails
>     patents, if
>     DASH itself is covered by patents and requires licensing, it's out.
>
>     DASH is container and codec agnostic so in theory could support things
>     like Ogg or MKV/WebM.
>
>     To sum up: Solid IPR evaluation necessary, then PoC by whomever sees
>     fit. In that order.
>
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Thomas
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