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Design and Evaluation of a Second Screen Interactive Digital Media Solution using MPEG-DASH

Authors:
Jomar Brudeli
Shafaq Irshad
Andrew Perkis

Keywords: Interactive media, Streaming, MPEG-DASH, Entertainment, QoE, Second screen

Abstract:
This research work designs and evaluates synchronized second screen interactive digital media using Moving Picture Experts Group Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). Second screen technology involves the use of a computing device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to provide an enhanced viewing experience for content on another device. The study design uses a structured format for defining MPEG-DASH inline events to trigger the second screen events. Furthermore, the ability for users to make choices that impact the story was implemented by generating several manifests and enabling the trigger manifest to refresh after each question. By performing a formal subjective user experiment, this study assesses the Quality of Experience (QoE) performance of the prototype. The results were positive and strongly indicate a high QoE for the entire system. A secondary result of our work is enhancing the QoE methodology for the assessment of second screen applications. The implemented system can easily be incorporated in the MPEG-DASH standard, allowing support for using the inline event for second screen triggering.

Pages: 1 to 8

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: April 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-839-6

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from April 18, 2021 to April 22, 2021