MPEG LA Opens Patent-Pool Licensing for MPEG Dash Content Streaming Format

MPEG LA is launching patent-pool licensing for the MPEG dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (MPEG Dash) standard, the licensing authority said in a Thursday announcement. MPEG Dash enables the streaming of content over internet application protocol to be “dynamically adapted to changing network conditions to provide smooth, high quality playback of video and other content without stalls or re-buffering events,” said MPEG LA. Current Dash patent holders in the pool include Amotech, AVerMedia Technologies, CableLabs, Columbia University, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Fraunhofer, Hitachi Maxell, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Siemens and SK Planet.