MPEG-DASH e seu impacto no tráfego multimídia no ensino a distância

Abstract

The multimedia consumption over the world wide web has been strongly growing along the last years. Hence it comes concerns about the bandwidth consumption, bolstered by significant raise of mobile computing. It is a known fact that multimedia bandwidth exceeded P2P network in terms of bandwidth consumption, and tend to grow in the next years. In this scenario, HTTP multimedia streaming technology came as a part of solution to the increasing multimedia bandwidth demand. MPEG-DASH is one of those technologies, currently employed at big distributing multimedia corporations, like Google and Netflix. However, the media transcoding and segmentation to MPEG-DASH standard is a laborious process and still slightly documented. This work cover in details techniques to media transcoding, segmentation, and reproduction on MPEG-DASH standard. The converted media are part of Centro de Educação a Distância of Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora produced courseware. The work aims at technical process of MPEG DASH media standardization, with focus on raised problems, and includes some aspects of media reproduction. This work brings a case study, and an analysis of applicable aspects of computing environment. Were tested several techniques and tools and the problems, solutions and suggestions are reported through the work. Results shows that the results, although few problems, are viable and advantageous to consumer of the specified media set.