DASH Everywhere A single player for all browser platforms Browser playback is changing Built-in DRM support While applications such as Flash and Silverlight were the predominant players, plugin-free playback is the future as browser vendors seek to increase security and performance. To natively enable adaptive streaming in HTML5 with DRM, all major browsers are beginning to feature new W3C speciﬁcations: Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions. These enable protected MPEG-DASH streams without the need for plugins. However, until consumers are using browsers supporting these extensions across all of their devices, plugins are still relevant. Currently, this means providers must use multiple players to reach the largest audience which lead to inﬂated setup and maintenance fees. But how can this be avoided when costs are a crucial success factor? Cross-platform playback castLabs simpliﬁes your DASH playback by supplying a single interoperable player for browser-capable devices. We call it DASH Everywhere. DASH Everywhere automatically utilizes the best available playback technology. This means it uses HTML5 & MSE/EME on modern browsers while falling-back to Flash with Access, or Silverlight with PlayReady for older browsers. Reaching the largest audience becomes easy by accounting for those who don’t use up-to-date browser applications. DASH Everywhere integrates with our cloud-based DRM licensing service, DRMtoday. It supports Common Encryption and all required systems for cross-platform content security: PlayReady, Access, and Widevine (Classic & Modular). This ensures protected playback across virtually all consumer platforms and devices. No technology lock-in Based on DASH.js and available as an add-on for the popular video.js player, DASH Everywhere is built on open technologies to avoid vendor or technological lock-in. Simple to install Migrating from Smooth Streaming to DASH? No problem! Your existing Smooth Streaming content can now be played in the same application as your DASH assets. No modiﬁcations are required as our player handles everything on-the-ﬂy: Only a few lines of JavaScript are required to implement DASH Everywhere for delivering seamless VoD and live streaming DASH experiences. Developers don’t need to worry about platform speciﬁcs any longer. Manifest transformation Video decoder initialization Dynamic conversion to DASH compatible fragments Supported formats Worried about Silverlight on Chrome? Even as Chrome-based browsers are set to drop support for Silverlight in 2015, we have you covered. DASH Everywhere lets you playback Smooth Streaming assets in Chrome/Chromecast using HTML5/EME, while using Silverlight for all other browsers. Contact us today! [email protected] castlabs.com WeWork Building 7083 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA, 90028, USA Files: MP4/TS Audio: HE-AAC, LC-AAC Video: H.264 up to High Proﬁle Level 4.1, 4.2, and 5 Platz vor dem Neuen Tor 2 10115 Berlin, Germany castLabs pioneers software and cloud-services for the digital video market. We develop streamlined solutions for secure content delivery and help organizations avoid the complexities of implementing new technology for high-quality video experiences. 2014