HTML5 Media Source Extensions: Bringing Production Video To The Web
▻https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/04/html5-media-source-extensions-bringing-production-video-web/#why-mpeg-dash
MPEG-DASH (the DASH being short for dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) is an international, vendor-independent standard ratified by MPEG and ISO (ISO/IEC 23009-1). Previous adaptive streaming technologies — such as Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Adobe HDS — were released by vendors with limited support for vendor-independent streaming servers or for playback clients. A vendor-dependent situation was clearly not desirable, and so standardization bodies started a harmonization process, resulting in the ratification of MPEG-DASH in 2012.