Packaging DASH stream with time based index without splitting mp4 file

[jinyeng]

I want to keep the fragmented mp4 file without splitting it and use the SegmentTemplate with time based indexing. I have tried all possible combinations however unable to have it working without splitting the file. Only if I use the --smooth option with --no-split the file is not split in to segment and also it uses the time based template. Checking if there is some option that I am missing ?

Here is the smooth example, however it generates additional ism files and it uses following template
media="stream.ism/QualityLevels($Bandwidth$)/Fragments(video=$Time$)"

Here is command

mp4dash -f --smooth /home/sample/a.2.mp4 /home/sample/v10000.2.mp4 /home/sample/v1000.2.mp4 /home/sample/v600.2.mp4 /home/sample/v300.2.mp4 -o /home/sample/mpd --mpd-name=410776960.mpd --no-split

[barbibulle]

You should get a non-split file with the on-demand profile of DASH. Use the --profile on-demand option with mp4dash. The template isn't really time-based, since in that case the client locates the segments with the segment index that's included in the file, so we can call that index-based rather than time-based. I suppose that still gets you what you want.

[jinyeng]

To clarify the above --no-split with on-demand profile, it generates a Byte range based format, with SegmentBase.

Is that the Index you are referring to ? Or index as in number based format where files are not split, and using a seg-1.m4s, seg-2.m4s ... format ?

Tricky part is my CDN does not support caching for the byterange based format, so I am looking at an option that still uses the Fragmented MP4 but with time or number based url instead of using the byte range header.