HLS playlists and DASH MPDs covering multi-bitrate ladders, byte-range addressing, and segment templates. Served inline with permissive CORS under /files/stream/, so a player can load them from any origin without re-hosting.
Each card starts with one representative test file. Choose a use case, search, or filter to find a specific profile; a card’s variant menu contains its related samples.
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Vod Dash
A DASH initialisation segment carrying codec configuration for one representation. Named by the manifest's $RepresentationID$ template, so this file also exercises whether a client resolves template variables correctly r
Stream Corrupt
An intentionally corrupt DASH manifest whose mediaPresentationDuration is the bare number 14.0 instead of the ISO 8601 form PT14.0S. The XML is well-formed, so it parses cleanly and only fails at schema validation, which
Stream
A live DASH manifest: type is dynamic, there is no total duration, and the client must compute which segment is currently available from availabilityStartTime, the wall clock, and the segment duration. Declares a one-min
Vod Hls
A CMAF initialisation segment: the moov box carrying codec configuration and track metadata, with no media samples. A player must fetch this before any media segment of the same rendition, and switching renditions mid-st
Ad Signalling
The matching return cue for the break-start splice_insert in this group: the same spliceEventId with outOfNetworkIndicator false, signalling the feed is coming back from the ad break. It carries no BreakDuration because
Thumbnails Track
A 6x2 sprite sheet of 160x90 scrub-preview thumbnails in a single JPEG. Players fetch one image rather than 12 separate requests, then crop each tile with a media fragment, which is why the WebVTT index in this group is
Captions Edge
A WebVTT metadata track whose cue payloads are JSON objects rather than text for display. This is how timed analysis output (scene changes, detections, speech segments) is carried alongside a video and read from JavaScri
