Flexible Media Transport Framework For Android

Adaptive video playing methods are mainly based on solutions involving the usage of HTTP together with TCP in the transport layer. However, TCP no longer seems to be the only solution. Other transport protocols (e.g., UDP) with different transport features (e.g., new error correction techniques) are also possible candidates. In this demo we demonstrate a flexible media delivery framework which is applicable to test both state-of-the-art media transfer methods and new possible future media transport mechanisms. We show both the joint effect of multiple buffering and adaptation algorithms as they are competing with each other and also the impact of Forward Error Correction schemes on the video quality. Measurements data can be logged in the Android application and important QoE parameters (e.g., playout state, resolution, buffer size) can be analyzed.