MPEG-CMAF: Threat or Opportunity?

In February 2016 at the 114th MPEG meeting in San Diego, an input contribution was registered providing a proposal for a “common media format for segmented media” signed by a number of major companies. This document proposed a Media Application Format (MAF) based on the ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF) and other MPEG standards for segmented media delivery which later became the MPEG Common Media Application Format (CMAF; officially MPEG-A Part 19 or ISO/IEC 23000-19).

In this blog post we will look closer into CMAF and how it actually relates to existing over-the-top (OTT) deployments.

The full version of the blog post is available here...