HTTP streaming methods

Description

This course looks at the delivery of video streams using
HTTP adaptive streaming. Both MPEG DASH and HLS
are investigated. Hands on sessions primarily involve
using Wireshark to analyse streams.

What will you learn

HTTP streaming training course details

Anyone working in the broadcast industry.

TCP/IP foundation for engineers

2 days

The old way. Progressive downloads versus
streaming. Why not UDP and RTP for delivery?
Adaptive bit rate streaming. Standards.

Hands on Base network setup. Using WireShark
for HTTP streams.

IP, TCP, IPv6. HTTP. HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1,
HTTP 2.0, HTTP header fields. HTML 5.

Hands on Analysing HTTP.

Chunks, fragments, segments. Manifest files.
Encoding, resolution, bitrates. Addressing,
relative and absolute URLs, redirection. When
does the client switch streams? Switch points.

Hands on Walk through of client behaviours on
a stream.

Server components, distribution components,
client software. CDN, caching, multiple servers.

Hands on Analysing CDN and Internet delivery.

TCP ACK, TCP connections, unicast only. TCP
flow control, TCP and performance.

Hands on TCP window sizes.

Stakeholders, DASH architecture and model,
codec agnostic, XML, Media Presentation
Description, Media Presentation, segment
formats.

Hands on MPEG DASH analysis.

Stakeholders. Media segments, media playlists,
master playlists. Adobe HTTP dynamic
streaming, Microsoft smooth streaming.

Hands on Analysing HLS.

mp4dash, mp4fragment, libdash. Apple
developer tools for HLS.

Hands on Creating segmented content.

HTTPS, encryption, content protection.

Hands on Encryption analysis.

Choosing a streaming method. Impact of live
versus VoD. Web sockets.