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February 23, 2018March 25, 2022

What is HLS M3U8 ? Learn how to download M3U8 video stream 🎞️ and how to download YouTube live event ✨?

HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol implemented by Apple Inc. as part of its QuickTime, Safari, OS X, and iOS software.

It resembles MPEG-DASH (MPD) in that it works by breaking the overall stream into a sequence of small HTTP-based file downloads, each download loading one short chunk of an overall potentially unbounded transport stream. As the stream is played, the client may select from a number of different alternate streams containing the same material encoded at a variety of data rates, allowing the streaming session to adapt to the available data rate. At the start of the streaming session, HLS downloads an extended M3U8 manifest playlist containing the metadata for the various sub-streams which are available.

February 20, 2018August 29, 2022

Windows 10 version 1803 – Redstone 4 – April 2018 🚀 Next release 📆

Windows 10’s Redstone 4 (version 1803) is the next major release set to deliver a new wave of features and improvements. Although we’re still 1 month away from the final release, there has been a number of previews unveiling a number of changes coming to the platform.

There are already confirmations that Window 10 Version 1803 will be followed by Version 1809 & Version 1903. Which simply means that after the release of Window 10 Version 1803 in March or early April, Microsoft plans to release next feature updates in September 2018 and March 2019.

At the time of writing this, the current Windows 10 version is 1709 a.k.a Fall Creators Update released last year, October 2017.

How to check your Windows 10 computer score?

It’s quite simple, just install ChrisPC Win Experience Index software and you will get back the Windows interface that you are already familiar from Windows 7 and Windows 8.

ChrisPC Win Experience Index is a free software for non-commercial use.

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February 13, 2018March 25, 2022

What is MPEG-DASH 🎬? How to download MPD video files 📺?

Nowadays many sites start using the MPD manifest instead of well known M3U8 and F4M.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), also known as MPEG-DASH, is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers.

The multimedia file is partitioned into one or more segments and delivered to a client using HTTP. For the client, aka video player, to know each segment position, a media presentation description (MPD) file describes segment information: timing, URL, media characteristics like video resolution and bit rates.

How to download MPD manifests?

February 10, 2018April 6, 2023

Where to watch the PyeongChang 2018 🏅 Olympic Winter Games ? 🌍🏑

The Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony just took place yesterday in PyeongChang, South Korea. You probably want to watch some skiing, hockey, curling and some ski jumping 🙂

So we made a list with the websites you can watch live or replay/recorded the Winter Games!

Keep in mind that this will work depending on your location or you can just use a proxy or VPN to “teleport” yourself in the right location to view the website you want. Continue reading “Where to watch the PyeongChang 2018 🏅 Olympic Winter Games ? 🌍🏑”

February 6, 2018March 25, 2022

What exactly is a DNS? How to change your DNS?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.

Simplifying DNS mechanism one can say that DNS is an intelligent phonebook where network entities (computers, servers, printers etc) have a human readable name associated with their technical unique Internet address which is a sequence of numbers.

In the end, computers connect to each other on the network by their technical internet addresses called IPs: IP (v4) or IP (v6).

A DNS server has the capability to quickly serve the IP of the named computer/entity that is accessed from your PC/laptop/tablet/smartphone. Therefore it is necessary for the functioning of your Internet browser when using URLs (Uniformed Resource Locators) and also when you send emails, since you use email addresses (which are in human readable form). Hence DNS is vital for browsing on the Net.

February 5, 2018August 29, 2022

Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) score on latest Windows 10 using free software

ChrisPC Win Experience Index is a free software that brings bag the Windows Experience Index on your Windows 10 OS.

Totally convenient, ChrisPC Win Experience Index runs on any Windows version on 32 or 64 bits, but aims to be used mainly for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

On some computer configuration the Windows System Assessment Tool – WinSAT might fail to calculate the WEI score so no ratings will be shown by ChrisPC WEI. In this case click on “More details” button and see where the assessment fails.