Last updated: November 29, 2024

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# Introducing MPEG-DASH support for adaptive streaming

![Tim Koschützki](/assets/images/teammates/avatar-tim-kos-1.jpg?dpl=dpl_6nhQNS5wkVkPZWuKMzXcWrAHNJL5)

**Tim Koschützki**

Co-founder · Berlin, Germany · Show bio

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We are happy to announce that a beta version of our new[/video/adaptive](/docs/robots/video-adaptive.md) Robot has been released, which contains our long-awaited support for the streaming standard MPEG-Dash!

![Our video adaptive Robot](/_assets/images/robots/120x120/video-adaptive.png)

Using the [/video/adaptive](/docs/robots/video-adaptive.md) Robot is very easy. You simply pipe [/video/encode](/docs/robots/video-encode.md) and[/audio/encode](/docs/robots/audio-encode.md) Steps into this Robot and it will generate the M4F segments along with the MPD manifest file for you. If you then feed theRobot's output to a storage Robot of your choice – and use the`${file.relative_path}` Assembly Variable in the storage Robot's `path`parameter – all files will be stored in the proper location relative to each other, making sure that the manifest file works.

Let's dive right in and have a look at an example Template:

```javascript
{
  "steps": {
    "1080p-video": {
      "robot": "/video/encode",
      "use": ":original",
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v2.2.3",
      "preset": "dash-1080p-video"
    },
    "720p-video": {
      "robot": "/video/encode",
      "use": ":original",
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v2.2.3",
      "preset": "dash-720p-video"
    },
    "32k_audio": {
      "robot": "/video/encode",
      "use": ":original",
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v2.2.3",
      "preset": "dash-32k_audio"
    },
    "64k_audio": {
      "robot": "/video/encode",
      "use": ":original",
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v2.2.3",
      "preset": "dash-64k_audio"
    },
    "adaptive": {
      "robot": "/video/adaptive",
      "use": {
        "steps": [
          "1080p-video",
          "720p-video",
          "32k_audio",
          "64k_audio"
        ],
        "bundle_steps": true
      },
      "technique": "dash",
      "playlist_name": "my_playlist.mpd"
    },
    "store": {
      "robot": "/s3/store",
      "use": "adaptive",
      "path": "dashtest/${file.meta.relative_path}/${file.name}",
      "key": "YOUR_AWS_KEY",
      "secret": "YOUR_AWS_SECRET",
      "bucket": "YOUR_S3_BUCKET"
    }
  }
}

```

As you can see in this Template, we are creating two high-bitrate video versions of the input video as well as two audio-only versions. To assist you with the encoding settings, we have added new special presets to the [/video/encode](/docs/robots/video-encode.md) and[/audio/encode](/docs/robots/audio-encode.md) Robots, specifically for MPEG-Dash. As usual, you can overwrite these settings with your own custom FFmpeg settings, though.

Here are the formats and codecs that you can currently pipe into the[/video/adaptive](/docs/robots/video-adaptive.md) Robot for use with MPEG-Dash:

* Formats: `mp4` and `webm`
* Video codecs: `h264`, `hevc`, `vp8`, `vp9`
* Audio codecs: `aac`, `ac3`, `vorbis`
* DRM is currently not supported, but we'll likely add this later on

The Robot not only allows you to change the duration of the segments (default: 10 seconds), but also the name of the manifest files, because having better control over that file's name could be relevant to your website due to player constraints, or compatibility with existing solutions. The segment file names, however, will be set by the Robot itself and cannot be controlled directly right now.

You can see the above example Template in action[in this demo](/demos/video-encoding/implement-mpeg-dash.md). Instructions on how to playback the manifest file can also be found there.

When you're ready to get serious, please hop over to the[/video/adaptive](/docs/robots/video-adaptive.md) Robot's[documentation](/docs/robots/video-adaptive.md) to learn about all the presets and parameters.

Even though it is still in beta, we are very excited about the release of this Robot! We hope you'll give it a warm welcome, and let us know your findings via the speech bubble on our site! The [/video/adaptive](/docs/robots/video-adaptive.md) Robot is flexible and besides DASH, even supports Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). More on that in another blog post. 😄

[#assembly](/blog/tags/assembly.md)[#audio-encode-robot](/blog/tags/audio-encode-robot.md)[#video-adaptive-robot](/blog/tags/video-adaptive-robot.md)[#video-encode-robot](/blog/tags/video-encode-robot.md)[#video-encoding-service](/blog/tags/video-encoding-service.md)

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