Will DAI support DASH streaming in the future?

[KrooCiso]

Hello, will DAI support DASH streaming in the future?

[Kiro705]

Hello @KrooCiso ,

Previously the work for DASH was blocked by support missing for DASH streams in the plugins used to implement stream playback. Would you know if support DASH streams with ads has been implemented in the videoJS ecosystem?

I can work on adding that support, if it is feasible.

Thank you,
Jackson
IMA SDK team

[KrooCiso]

@Kiro705
Thank you for your reply.

well...I'm not quite certain.

Because I have seen samples of Dash in googleads-ima-html5-dai, and I have tried it and it indeed works:
https://github.com/googleads/googleads-ima-html5-dai/tree/main/dash_js/simple

Moreover, the plugin (http-streaming) for videojs also supports the Dash format in its Streaming Formats:
https://github.com/videojs/http-streaming/blob/main/docs/supported-features.md

Does this achieve the conditions for supporting Dash?

[Kiro705]

Thanks for taking a look, @KrooCiso ,

I will look into if updating the dependency on http-streaming fixes the issue with DASH streams.

Jackson
IMA SDK team

[KrooCiso]

@Kiro705
Thank you~

[Kiro705]

Hello @KrooCiso ,

I was looking into this, but can't figure out what to listen to during a DASH stream in order to pass the metadata to the IMA SDK. Currently this is done for HLS streams here , but it is not triggering for the DASH stream. I tried the different listeners used in the IMA handling metadata guide, but those listeners did not trigger easier.

If you, or someone else is able to add any additional information, or ideally a code snippet of how the plugin should handle DASH stream metadata, that would really be helpful.

Thank you,
Jackson
IMA SDK team