DASH enables the deployment of streaming services using the existing low cost and wide-spread Internet infrastructure without any special provisions. It supports both on-demand and live streaming and has specific provisions for the MPEG-4 file format and MPEG-2 Transport Streams, but can be used with any media format.
This TR contains a set of guidelines for design and deployment of streaming media delivery systems using the DASH standard covering content generation, client implementation, and examples of deployment scenarios.