Summary: Overview of CableLabs’ Adaptive Transport Stream (ATS) specification. A mechanism to create DASH content on demand in just in time fashion. The input is multirate MP2TS streaming, each of which can be played by a MPEG2 legacy decoder. The helper/JCP packages in fragments and creates the MPD. It supports multiple formats including HDS, DASH, HLS, etc. this is in contracts of the traditional approach that for each format, a transcoder & packager is used. Here, transcode is separate than the packager and same transcoder is used with packager for multiple formats. This specification is complimentary to EBP.
