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When running performance tests on video streaming platforms, you often need to go beyond basic pass/fail assertions. Whether you are testing HLS, MPEG-DASH, or Smooth Streaming services, having granular control over your test validations is essential for meaningful results. We are excited to introduce the ULPVideoAnalysisUtils utility class, designed to empower testers with powerful tools […]

We are proud to announce the release of version 10.3.0 of our performance testing tool for Video Streaming servers (HLS, MPEG-DASH, HSS, HDS). This release brings significant improvements for modern streaming formats, including enhanced HLS support with EXT-X-MAP and EXT-X-START tags, low-latency DASH optimizations, fixes for HLS Interstitials ad insertion, along with bug fixes that […]

We are proud to announce the release of the version 10.2 (10.2.4) of our performance testing tool for Video Streaming servers (HLS, MPEG-DASH, HSS, HDS). We will see in this blog the release notes of this version New features and enhancements Support HLS SGAI The plugin comes with a new Major feature, as it now […]

www.freepik.com Ad insertion Ad insertion in video streaming refers to the process of dynamically inserting advertisements into video content during playback. This technique, widely used in both live and on-demand video streaming, allows content providers to generate revenue by displaying targeted ads to viewers. This is a primary source of income for many streaming services, […]

www.freepik.com How to setup ads insertion on video streaming with AWS Services This blog describes how to add Ads to a video or audio stream using HLS or DASH as format. The tooling we will use for that is the following : OBS OBS is free and open source video recording and live streaming software. […]

MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012) is a vendor free format that is used to stream content through HTTP requests. MPEG-DASH uses playlists called Media Presentation Description that end with .mpd extension. When to use it ? Multi-period is usually used to add content to a video, such as advertising or to split […]