libdash

{{Infobox software

| name = libdash

| developer = bitmovin, ITEC Team

| released = {{Start date|2013|02|01}}

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|P348}}

| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}

| programming language = C++{{cite web | url=http://www.bitmovin.net/files/bitmovin/content/documentation/libdash/3_0/index.html | title=Developer Documentation | access-date=2013-09-29 | archive-date=2015-02-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205064909/http://www.bitmovin.net/files/bitmovin/content/documentation/libdash/3_0/index.html | url-status=dead }}

| genre = Multimedia framework

| license = GNU LGPL

| repo = {{URL|github.com/bitmovin/libdash}}

}}

libdash is a computer software library which provides an object-oriented interface to the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard. It is also the official reference implementation of the ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH standard,{{cite web | url=http://www.slideshare.net/christian.timmerer/mpegdash-conformance-and-reference-software | title=libdash official MPEG-DASH Reference Software | date=18 September 2013 }} and maintained by the Austrian company bitmovin. The libdash source code is open source, published at GitHub,{{cite web | url=https://github.com/bitmovin/libdash | title=libdash Source Code Repository | website=GitHub }} and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+.{{cite web | url=http://www.bitmovin.net/libdash.html | title=libdash License and Legal Contact bitmovin GmbH | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003045823/http://www.bitmovin.net/libdash.html | archive-date=2013-10-03 }}

The project contains a Qt-based sample multimedia player that is based on ffmpeg which uses libdash for the playback of DASH streams.