Streaming of Governed Content - Time for a Standard

This paper presents ISO/IEC 23000-5 -media streaming player, an ISO standard targeting the distribution of governed content in streaming mode. This standard is a major integration of MPEG technologies, ranging from MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to MPEG-21 including a set of inter-device protocols developed by the Digital Media Project, now ISO/IEC 29116-1 -Media Streaming MAF Protocols. The paper also presents Chillout, adopted for the open source reference software of this standard. Chillout is written in Java and provides a set of libraries for developing applications conforming to the standard.