Enabling Superior and Controllable Video Streaming QoE with 5G Network Orchestration

5G promises to offer a single network platform that can be optimized for several vertical industries and applications. It is envisioned that this optimization will be achieved through advanced network orchestration functionalities. Video streaming accounts for the vast majority of mobile traffic, hence optimizing performance and Quality of...

Viewport-driven DASH media playback for interactive storytelling: A seamless non-linear storyline experience

Over the past few years, the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technologies, e.g. the MPEG-DASH standard (DASH), became the predominant form of online video streaming. 360 Virtual Reality (VR) content have recently emerged on video streaming platform as a new immersive format but limits the interaction with the viewer to looking around via head...

360-degree video streaming with MPEG-DASH

Virtual reality (VR) has gained a lot of attention due to market availability of consumer devices. A challenge for wider use is the ability to stream VR content to the user. This paper looks at aspects of 360° video streaming and the considerations for possible solutions. The primary focus lies on current efforts to develop standards for...

MPEG DASH SRD: Spatial Relationship Description

This paper presents the Spatial Representation Description (SRD)feature of the second amendment of MPEG DASH standard part 1, 23009-1:2014 [1]. SRD is an approach for streaming only spatial sub-parts of a video to display devices, in combination with the form of adaptive multi-rate streaming that is intrinsically supported by MPEG DASH. The SRD...

Interactive UHDTV at the Commonwealth Games: An Explorative Evaluation

iXperience: A Mobile Application for an Interactive UHDTV Experience

Using MPEG DASH SRD for zoomable and navigable video

This paper presents a video streaming client implementation that makes use of the Spatial Relationship Description (SRD) feature of the MPEG-DASH standard, to provide a zoomable and navigable video to an end user. SRD allows a video streaming client to request spatial subparts of a particular video stream, which might be available in multiple...

Interactive UHDTV at the Commonwealth Games - An Explorative Evaluation

In conjunction with BBC R&D experiments and demonstrations at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, an explorative field trial was conducted with a live zoomable UHD video system. The unique field trial featured the world’s first live tiled streaming of 4K UHD video to end users. During the trial, we studied and evaluated the attractiveness and novelty...

A Hybrid Architecture for Delivery of Panoramic Video

The media industry is being pulled in the often-opposing directions of increased realism (high resolution, stereoscopic, large screen) and personalisation (selection and control of content, availability on many devices). Within the EU FP7 project FascinatE, a capture, production and delivery system capable of allowing end-users to interactively...

A hybrid architecture for delivery of panoramic video

The media industry is being pulled in the often-opposing directions of increased realism (high resolution, stereoscopic, large screen) and personalisation (selection and control of content, availability on many devices). Within the EU FP7 project FascinatE, a capture, production and delivery system capable of allowing end-users to interactively...