Introduction

A majority of Internet traffic is now streaming video.

However, there are currently no standards or common conventions to provide commercial quality IP streaming video across different platforms and between unrelated companies.

Conformance

As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.

The key words MUST, MUST NOT, SHALL, SHOULD and SHOULD NOT in this specification are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [[RFC2119]].

This specification only applies to one class of product: W3C Technical Reports. A number of specifications may be created to address the requirements enumerated in this document. In some cases the union of multiple parts of different specifications may be needed to address a single requirement. Nevertheless, this document speaks only of conforming specifications.

Conforming specifications are ones that address one or more requirements listed in this document. Conforming specifications should attempt to address SHOULD level requirements requirements unless there is a technically valid reason not to do so.

Terminology

programme (program)

A programme (program) comprises a single period of audio visual content. It is usually expected to be labeled in content directories or television programme guides as a single entity. This might include an episode of a television programme, a radio programme, or a movie.

MPTF Requirements for Adaptive Bit Rate Streaming

This section list the requirements that conforming specification(s) would need to adopt in order to ensure a common interface and interpretation for the playback and control of adaptive bit rate media. These requirements are the result of an interactive process of feedback and discussion within the Media Pipeline Task Force of the Web and TV Interest Group

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