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Encoder Boundary Point
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Category: Encoding and Packaging

Microsoft Smooth Streaming

Microsoft Smooth Streaming is a technology developed by Microsoft for adaptive bitrate streaming of media content over HTTP.

Low-latency HTTP Live Streaming

Low-latency HTTP Live Streaming is an extension of the HLS protocol designed to minimize latency in video streaming. While both LL-HLS and HLS are based

Encoder Boundary Point

Encoder Boundary Point is used by the ABR transcoder to signal segment boundaries that are used by the packager downstream to generate the segment files.

HTTP Live Streaming

HTTP Live Streaming is an Apple standard for ABR media streaming using fMP4 or MPEG-TS containers and H.264 or H.265 video codecs.

High Efficiency Video Codec

Video compression standard, published in 2013, with the goal to succeed AVC/H.264 by reducing bitrate up to 50% while maintaining the same perceptual video quality

fragmented MP4

Fragmented MP4 is an MP4 container with its media logically partitioned into moof-mdat pairs (fragments). fMP4 can be one .mp4 file (all fragments) streamed using

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP is an MPEG international standard to enable non-proprietary ABR media streaming using fMP4 containers and any codec format.

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