DASH-IF

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The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF)^[1] is a system which according to the company "creates interoperability guidelines for the usage of the MPEG-DASH streaming standard. It consists of streaming and media companies, such as Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Ericsson, Samsung and Adobe." They provide an open source version of this software also.^[2]

One of the main goals of the DASH Industry Forum as stated by the company itself is to "attain interoperability of DASH-enabled products on the market."

The DASH Industry Forum has produced several documents as implementation guidelines:

• DASH-AVC/264 Interoperability Points V3.0: DRM updates, Improved Live, Ad Insertion, Events, H.265/HEVC support, Trick Modes, CEA608/708
• DASH-AVC/264 Interoperability Points V2.0: HD and Multi-Channel Audio Extensions
• DASH-AVC/264 Interoperability Points V1.0 ^[3]

• H.264/MPEG-4 AVC