Encoding and Storing Only Once: The Road to CMAF Adoption
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
- Volume
- 132, No. 7, pp. 39–44
- Abstract
- The spectacular growth in video streaming consumption over the past decade has relied on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) adaptive streaming (HAS), implemented by a variety of standards linked to several competing technological ecosystems. To serve this fragmented market and reach a heterogeneous set of target devices, operators have to decline their services into many flavors, leading to a complex video delivery infrastructure with many redundancies. As an extensible format for encoding and packaging, the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) standard emerged in 2016 from a collaborative industry effort to simplify and streamline HTTP-based streaming media, bringing the promise of encoding and storing the media only once, as an additional step toward video streaming sustainability. From the standard publication to its fulfillment of promises, CMAF is gradually overcoming a set of technological and economic challenges. This article details the primary considerations for its implementation, including device rollout, encryption scheme and low-latency support, and also evaluates the infrastructure footprint reduction for a typical operator.
- Publication Date
- 2023-08-01
- DOI
10.5594/JMI.2023.3285284- ISSN
- Print:
1545-0279| Electronic:2160-2492 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2023.3285284
- Author(s)
- Christophe Burdinat
bio
Christophe Burdinat is the director of Technologies and Standard at Ateme, Velizy-Vilacoublay, France. With more than 15 years of experience in the Mobile Broadcast Industry. In his different roles, he drives the product development, research and development collaborative projects, and standardization management. He is a 3GPP, DVB, and SVA regular delegate and contributor. His expertise includes content delivery protocols, mission-critical/public safety services over mobile networks among other areas.Mickaël Rauletbio
Mickaël Raulet is CTO at Ateme, Rennes, France, where he drives research and innovation with various collaborative research and development projects. He represents Ateme in several standardization bodies. Raulet is the author of numerous patents and more than 100 conference and journal scientific papers. In 2006, he received his PhD degree from INSA, Rennes, in electronic and signal processing, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric ITE, Rennes.Eric Toullecbio
Eric Toullec received his PhD degree in computing science from Rennes 1 University, Rennes, France, in 2005. He joined Ateme, Rennes, in 2015, to work with Mickaël Raulet in Ateme’s Research and Innovation Team, in which he took part in several French collaborative projects to study and promote innovative technologies. His research and development work mainly focuses on video packaging and distribution technologies. During the past three years, he mainly worked on Next-Gen TV technologies, more specifically on the development, testing, and deployment of ATSC 3.0. He is currently following 5G standardization and participates in projects taking advantage of this new technology. He is the author of several conference and journal papers, as well as patents. - Keyword(s)
- Common Media Application Format (CMAF), DASH, HAS, HLS
- Copyright
- © 2023 SMPTE
Bibliographic Reference(s)
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