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Accessing the conformance service

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Yi Li edited this page May 18, 2016 · 22 revisions

There are three ways to access our conformance service.

Via the graphical user interface

Accessible at http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/conformancetest.php (alias: http://dashif.org/conformance.html ).

You can provide a local test MPD by uploading, or offer an URL to the MPD file, then click "submit". Another possibility is passing the URL by appending an argument ?mpdurl=MPDlocation to the link.

eg. http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/conformancetest.php?mpdurl=http://dash.edgesuite.net/dash264/TestCases/1a/qualcomm/1/MultiRate.mpd

Via command line

It's very convenient with wget or curl. For test vectors on a server, the format is:

wget --post-data 'urlcode=["MPDlocation","mpdvalidator",0]' -q http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/process.php -O Output

OR

curl -d 'urlcode=["MPDlocation","mpdvalidator",0]' http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/process.php

  • MPDlocation is the URL of the test MPD file.
  • Pass 1 instead of 0 to run MPD conformance test only.
  • Output is the file name where you want to save the conformance result. If you want to display it directly in the console, then simply replace it with -. Curl output the result to display by default.

An example is: wget --post-data 'urlcode=["http://dash.edgesuite.net/dash264/TestCases/1a/qualcomm/1/MultiRate.mpd","mpdvalidator",0]' -q http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/process.php -O -

If you want to test a local MPD file, please use the following format:

curl -F 'afile=@file_location' -F 'urlcode=["upload","mpdvalidator",1]' http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/process.php

  • file_location is the local path of your MPD file.
  • The software only does a MPD conformance test no matter if you pass 1 or 0 here.

For example: curl -F 'afile=@/home/xxx/MultiRate.mpd' -F 'urlcode=["upload","mpdvalidator",1]' http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/process.php

The temporary result folder is located in http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/temp/. Usually it has a name starting with "id" and followed by random numbers. It's also possible to specify a name by e.g. -F 'foldername='NAME'' or -F 'foldername=NAME', which have the same effect. However, it's highly discouraged unless you have a special usage. The reason is that if two folders have the same name, then the new results would overwrite the old ones. Especially when you use some simple words, the results might be wrong if other users are using the same name as you do! So please be very careful when using this option!

We also restrict the format of the name you choose. Only name without "/" is accepted, which means that relative path is not allowed. If you for e.g. passed foldername ../xx or yy/xx to our server, the final name would both be xx, which would be located directly in the folder "temp".

For more details, please refer to Conformance Results.

Integration in a Web-service

A Simple test page is provided as an example to execute conformance test with just a few lines of JavaScript code. This sample page redirects to the result folder when the conformance is finished (please make sure to allow the pop-ups from the test page). The URL is http://vm1.dashif.org/conformance/current/webfe/SimpleTest.html.

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