Forensic A/B Watermarking DASH-IF Demo

We present an implementation overview of the architecture of DASH-IF Forensic A/B Watermarking.

• https://doi.org/10.1145/3638036.3640251

• ETSI TS 104 002 Publicly Available Specification (PAS); DASH-IF Forensic A/B Watermarking version 1.1.1 8-2023. An interoperable watermarking integration schema.

Run PoC for VOD

Run PoC for live streaming

The following docker-compose command will build the image of FFmpeg that is needed.

make setup-3 USP_LICENSE_KEY=$USP_LICENSE_KEY

Currently these are following A/B variant from Origin available:

You will notice that the response Header from this server contains a response Header X-ORIGIN: ORIGIN-A or X-ORIGIN: ORIGIN-B which helps identified the two Origin servers.

Example stream with the following WM pattern 0101010101

curl -v \
http://localhost/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJuYW1lIjoiSm9obiBEb2UiLCIzMDAiOjEsIjMwMSI6MSwiMzAyIjoxMCwid210b2tlbi1kaXJlY3QiOnsiMzA0IjowMTAxMDEwMTAxfSwic3ViIjoiMTIzNDU2Nzg5MCIsImlzcyI6ImY0YTg0NWU5ZDEwNyJ9.0iEoLGTJLlJuYxIby6_krB8BNMpNwee40AyrHMgaR6c/ingress.isml/.mpd

Example stream with the following pattern 0000011111

http://localhost/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJuYW1lIjoiSm9obiBEb2UiLCIzMDAiOjEsIjMwMSI6MSwiMzAyIjoxMCwid210b2tlbi1kaXJlY3QiOnsiMzA0IjowMDAwMDExMTExfSwic3ViIjoiMTIzNDU2Nzg5MCIsImlzcyI6ImY0YTg0NWU5ZDEwNyJ9.qXenxnAql5Lkil5kRJ6BIqlf4tD4nL08PUlcDMMr5AU/ingress.isml/.mpd

This is an example of how would look the playback in DASH-IF reference player

In the following images you will notice different Active Container ID which identifies the Variant A/B from the live streaming setup.

Variant A:

Variant B:

Clean PoC for LIVE

Make sure that you are running the following command from the /live folder of the project.

make clean-setup-3