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Dear VideoLAN community,
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<div class="elementToProof ContentPasted0">I found the idea - "Develop a MPD server inside VLC", intruiging and relevant to my experience under the GSoC program. I was looking for early feedback before starting the GSoC application on whether I am a right fit
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<div class="elementToProof"><b>About Me:<br>
</b>I am a computer science research student at the University of Calgary working on DASH streaming with one of my research [1] accepted in ACM MMSys 2023 conference. Recently I developed a complete video streaming player in python tailored for R&D supporting
- DASH, HLS, live streaming, 360 degree videos and playback using OpenGL. A paper explaining the player is currently under review in
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/conference/nossdav" title="https://dl.acm.org/conference/nossdav" data-loopstyle="link" id="LPlnk370442">
NOSSDAV 2023</a>. I also have contributed to a relevant project (iStream) which is a video streaming framework for distributed video streaming experiments.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><b>References:</b></div>
<div class="elementToProof">[1] TASQ: Temporal Adaptive Streaming over Quic.To be presented in Proceedings of the 14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 98–109.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof">Thanks for your help.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
Akram</div>
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