Pierre Guitton speaking at IBC2013 - How Gstreamer helped in building SoftAtHome universal Player

Streamed media content is proving to be one of the most popular ways of accessing video and audio in the world. Content owners, network operators, service providers, manufacturers, mass media, and marketers, among many others, have realized how essential streaming media is to communicating their message. Those millions of viewers are demanding high quality not only in the content itself, but in their entire user experience. With consumer tastes evolving as new technologies and services arrive, and the delivery of streaming media involving a variety of form factors and bandwidths, it’s of vital importance to implement a technology that guarantees an excellent user experience.

This session has approached the subject of Adaptive Streaming from an integral perspective, tackling both the evolution of the streaming technology business and its needs, together with the technical components required to guarantee that content is correctly delivered to users. Discussion will span the most popular standards used for Adaptive Streaming, such as DASH, SmoothStreaming and HLS. Speakers will also cover possible with DRM (Digital Rights Management) services such as Play Ready and Marlin and will delve into the technical details of how Adaptive Streaming operates in GStreamer, an open source multimedia framework that offers cross-platform and multi-format capabilities.