Embeddng an adaptive streaming video within your HTML5 application - MS Open Tech. Poor quality streaming video solutions resulted in an estimated $2.16 Billion of lost revenue in 2012 (according to the 2013 Conviva Viewer Experience Report). That’s a LOT of zeros! Since we at Microsoft Open technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) believe this is simply unacceptable, we’d like to share some ways in which developers can leverage open source code to ensure their own delivery of video is of the highest possible standard. For this tutorial, we have chosen to use the dash.js player to deliver MPEG-DASH video to any browser that supports the W3C Media Source Extensions (MSE).
What is MPEG-DASH and dash.js? MPEG-DASH is an ISO standard for the adaptive streaming of video content, which offers significant benefits for those who wish to deliver high-quality, adaptive video streaming output. Many of these benefits directly address opportunities for improving user engagement identified in the Conviva report, such as: Dash.js is an open source MPEG-DASH video player written in JavaScript.