DASH VOD — Manifest (Playable Package)
A complete, playable MPEG-DASH manifest for the same 320x180 at 300 kbps, 480x270 at 700 kbps, 640x360 at 1400 kbps ladder as the HLS package, produced from the same encoder run — so the two can be compared directly as packaging rather than as content. Every segment it references exists in this group. Served inline as application/dash+xml with permissive CORS, so dash.js can load it cross-origin.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MPD xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="urn:mpeg:dash:schema:mpd:2011"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:mpeg:DASH:schema:MPD:2011 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/MPEG-DASH_schema_files/DASH-MPD.xsd"
profiles="urn:mpeg:dash:profile:isoff-live:2011"
type="static"
mediaPresentationDuration="PT2.0S"
maxSegmentDuration="PT1.0S"
minBufferTime="PT2.0S">
<ProgramInformation>
</ProgramInformation>
<ServiceDescription id="0">
</ServiceDescription>
<Period id="0" start="PT0.0S">
<AdaptationSet id="0" contentType="video" startWithSAP="1" segmentAlignment="true" bitstreamSwitching="true" frameRate="24/1" maxWidth="320" maxHeight="180" par="16:9">
<Representation id="0" mimeType="video/mp4" codecs="avc1.64000d" bandwidth="300000" width="320" height="180" sar="1:1">
<SegmentTemplate timescale="1000000" duration="1000000" initialization="init-stream$RepresentationID$.m4s" media="chunk-stream$RepresentationID$-$Number%05d$.m4s" startNumber="1">
</SegmentTemplate>
</Representation>
</AdaptationSet>
<AdaptationSet id="1" contentType="video" startWithSAP="1" segmentAlignment="true" bitstreamSwitching="true" frameRate="24/1" maxWidth="480" maxHeight="270" par="16:9">
<Representation id="1" mimeType="video/mp4" codecs="avc1.640015" bandwidth="700000" width="480" height="270" sar="1:1">
<SegmentTemplate timescale="1000000" duration="1000000" initialization="init-stream$RepresentationID$.m4s" media="chunk-stream$RepresentationID$-$Number%05d$.m4s" startNumber="1">
</SegmentTemplate>
</Representation>
</AdaptationSet>
<AdaptationSet id="2" contentType="video" startWithSAP="1" segmentAlignment="true" bitstreamSwitching="true" frameRate="24/1" maxWidth="640" maxHeight="360" par="16:9">
<Representation id="2" mimeType="video/mp4" codecs="avc1.64001e" bandwidth="1400000" width="640" height="360" sar="1:1">
<SegmentTemplate timescale="1000000" duration="1000000" initialization="init-stream$RepresentationID$.m4s" media="chunk-stream$RepresentationID$-$Number%05d$.m4s" startNumber="1">
</SegmentTemplate>
</Representation>
</AdaptationSet>
</Period>
</MPD>
Specifications
- Protocol
- MPEG-DASH
- Profile
- isoff-live
- Addressing
- SegmentTemplate with $Number$
- Segment Duration
- 1s
- Ladder
- 320x180 at 300 kbps, 480x270 at 700 kbps, 640x360 at 1400 kbps
- Generated By
- ffmpeg dash muxer
- Served Inline
- yes — /files/stream/
- Cors
- Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
What is a .mpd file?
MPD (Media Presentation Description, .mpd) is the XML manifest at the heart of MPEG-DASH adaptive streaming. It describes periods, adaptation sets, representations, and segment templates, telling a player which bitrate ladders exist and how to construct segment URLs. It is the DASH counterpart to an HLS .m3u8 playlist.
How to use this file
Use an example .mpd to test DASH players, manifest parsers, and ABR ladder logic. Files under /files/stream/ are served inline with permissive CORS, so a player can fetch this manifest and its segments from any origin without re-hosting them.
How to use this file for testing
“DASH VOD — Manifest (Playable Package)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Streaming manifests, Video codecs, Video QA. HLS playlists and DASH MPDs covering multi-bitrate ladders, byte-range addressing, and segment templates. Served inline with permissive CORS under /files/stream/, so a player can load them from any origin without re-hosting.
Documented properties for this file: MPD · 2,252 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Media fixtures are short and synthetic by design. Prefer waveform or transcript ground truth in the same group when measuring ASR, trim, upscale, or sync tools; do not assume broadcast-quality masters.
Code examples
# manifests resolve their own segments, so pass the URL, not a local copy
ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_name,width,height manifest.mpd
ffplay manifest.mpdRelated files
- m4sHLS VOD — CMAF Init Segment (init_0.m4s)A CMAF initialisation segment: the moov box carrying codec configuration and track metadata, with no media samples. A player must fetch this before any media segment of the same rendition, and switching renditions mid-stream means fetching the new rendition's init first — the step ABR implementations most often get wrong.
- m4sHLS VOD — CMAF Init Segment (init_1.m4s)A CMAF initialisation segment: the moov box carrying codec configuration and track metadata, with no media samples. A player must fetch this before any media segment of the same rendition, and switching renditions mid-stream means fetching the new rendition's init first — the step ABR implementations most often get wrong.
- m4sHLS VOD — CMAF Init Segment (init_2.m4s)A CMAF initialisation segment: the moov box carrying codec configuration and track metadata, with no media samples. A player must fetch this before any media segment of the same rendition, and switching renditions mid-stream means fetching the new rendition's init first — the step ABR implementations most often get wrong.
- m3u8HLS VOD — Master Playlist (Playable Package)The entry point to a COMPLETE and genuinely playable HLS package: a 3-rung ladder (320x180 at 300 kbps, 480x270 at 700 kbps, 640x360 at 1400 kbps) with real CMAF segments alongside it in this group. Point hls.js or Safari at this URL and it plays — it is served inline with permissive CORS from /files/stream/, so it works cross-origin without re-hosting. Unlike the hand-authored HLS fixtures elsewhere in the catalog, which are parser tests that reference placeholder segment names on purpose, everything this playlist references actually exists.
- m3u8HLS VOD — Media Playlist (0)One rendition of the playable HLS ladder, listing its own CMAF init segment and media segments. Referenced by the master playlist in this group. Generated by ffmpeg's own HLS muxer, so the segment durations, the EXT-X-MAP and the ENDLIST are exactly what a real packager emits rather than what a human thinks one emits.
- m3u8HLS VOD — Media Playlist (1)One rendition of the playable HLS ladder, listing its own CMAF init segment and media segments. Referenced by the master playlist in this group. Generated by ffmpeg's own HLS muxer, so the segment durations, the EXT-X-MAP and the ENDLIST are exactly what a real packager emits rather than what a human thinks one emits.
Generated by generation/video_streaming_wave.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.