CMSD FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO MONITORING

Instant Video Quality Analytics Powered by a New Industry Standard

Online Workshop 1 October 2025, 3PM CET, 9 AM EDT

See quality issues as they happen


Video Quality Analytics (VQA) is crucial for seamless streaming experiences. But streaming teams still fly blind on true picture quality. Bitrate and rebuffer counts tell part of the story, but viewers abandon for reasons you never see in those graphs.

The turning point: Common Media Server Data (CMSD) as an industry standard

At its core, CMSD provides a structured way to capture, transmit, and analyse the key metrics that determine end‑to‑end quality (QoE/QoS).

CMSD-MQA adds a single, lightweight quality label to every segment, so encoders, CDNs and players can share the same "How good does it look?" score in real time.

What CMSD offers 

It's no longer necessary to work out quality metrics via resource‑heavy, compute‑intensive processing throughout the media delivery chain, since they can simply come for free with the media.

Real-time monitoring

Automated issue detection

Data-driven decision making

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This session explores how media companies can use CMSD to transmit real-time video quality scores through the entire delivery chain. You'll learn how to:

Detect quality drops within milliseconds

Route traffic to the best-looking copy, not merely the highest bitrate

Cut "Why is the picture fuzzy?" support tickets before they hit the queue

 

Powered by G&L Systemhaus, and our partners Norsk, Touchstream, and Akamai.

Meet the speakers

Who should attend?


Live Sports & News Broadcasters


OTT & VOD Streaming Platforms


Event Streaming and eSports Companies


Cloud Gaming & Interactive Streaming Providers


Virtual Event & Webinar Specialists


Employee Training & E-Learning Platforms


Government & Public-Service Streaming Channels



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What you’ll learn

Background & Motivation

 Why bitrate and rebuffering aren’t enough, and how CMSD standardizes quality telemetry to make true picture quality observable in real time

VQA Essentials

The core concepts, practical, low overhead metrics for live pipelines, and per segment scoring with CMSD MQA

Live Demo

End-to-end flow: monitoring and visualizing segment and stream level quality across encoder, CDN, and player

Fast detection & action

Instant alerts on quality drops plus quality aware routing (choose the best looking copy, not just the highest bitrate)

Future Roadmap

Where CMSD headers and the SVTA draft spec are headed next, and how you can influence them

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Speakers

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Brenton Ough

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CEO & Co-Founder
Touchstream


Based in Barcelona and originally from Australia, Brenton is the CEO and Co-founder of Touchstream. Prior to founding Touchstream in 2015, Brenton focused on performance monitoring at HP for clients like Sky, NYSE, and iBasis, and it is here that he saw a gap in mission-critical monitoring, specifically for OTT streaming. Brenton has a passion for sports, and is an entrepreneur focused on product innovation and development, a believer in partnerships, and a hands-on motivator.

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Will Law

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Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group
Akamai


Will Law is Chief Architect within the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai and a leading media delivery technologist, involved with streaming media on the Internet for the last twenty years. Currently focusing on Media Over Quic, WebTransport, low latency streaming, MPEG DASH, CMCD, CMSD and CAT, Law is Co-Chair of the W3C WebTransport Working Group and the CTA Common Media Client Data Working Group and past President of the DASH Industry Forum and Chairman of the CTA WAVE Project. He holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and prior to Akamai worked for a series of engineering and media-related startups.

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Alexander Leschinsky

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CEO & Co-Founder
G&L Systemhaus


Alexander Leschinsky is a distinguished expert in the streaming media industry. As a trusted consultant to major public broadcasters, he established the 'Streaming Division' at Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion in 1999 before co-founding G&L Systemhaus in 2005. His extensive academic background – spanning systematic musicology, phonetics, computer science, and electrical engineering – reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the streaming business. This enables him to bridge the gap between client requirements and technical feasibility while balancing standardization with transformative innovation. Beyond his professional expertise, Alexander is a dedicated family man and a passionate choir tenor.

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Adrian Roe

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CEO
Norsk/Id3as


Adrian Roe is an energetic and creative entrepreneur with an exceptional track record of running fast growth IT-led companies across the streaming media, retail, financial and mobile sectors. Highly commercial, with a broad range of board-level experience and a proven ability to exploit new technologies and bring new thinking to traditional markets.

Specialties: Making the complex simple. Ensuring clarity and consistency of strategy, purpose and values throughout the organisation. Motivating and developing staff at all levels.

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