Episode marking

[Zuldek1994822]

Is it possible to add an array of episodes to the manifest.mpd file?

When the user provides timestamps to the video. I create an array, start time and a description for it, then I will add the array to the database for publication.

This array must be passed to javascript for further parsing of the progress bar.

Is it possible to add this array to manifest.mpd, and then get it into dash and work with it?

[dsilhavy]

You can add Events to the MPD or the Media Segments. They can contain arbitrary payload and are dispatched to the application. There is an example for inband events (events included in the media segments) here: https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/latest/samples/advanced/listening-to-SCTE-EMSG-events.html

For Events signaled in the MPD it should look like this:

<EventStream
schemeIdUri="urn:mpeg:dash:event:alternativeMPD:2022" timescale="1000">
  <Event presentationTime="42000" duration="10000" >
      somepayload
  </Event>
</EventStream>