Daniel Silhavy
5G-MAG WG Chair - Development And Ecosystem-drive at DASH Industry Forum
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Silhavy is a media-streaming engineer and standards-focused technical leader with 12+ years of experience driving MPEG-DASH, DRM and 5G media initiatives from code to ecosystem. As lead developer of the widely used dash.js reference player and Development Coordinator for the 5G-MAG Reference Tools, he blends hands-on front-end engineering (HTML/JS, MSE/EME) and C++ work with cross-industry standardization at DASH-IF, 3GPP and DVB. He chairs working groups (5G-MAG, SVTA Players & Playback) and teaches at TU Berlin while supervising theses, bringing academic rigor to practical deployments. Known for UX-focused contributions to dash.js—thumbnailing, settings menus and robust caption handling—he’s adept at turning specification complexity into reliable playback features. Based in Berlin and rooted in Fraunhofer research, he uniquely bridges research, open source and standards to accelerate real-world streaming adoption.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Technische Universität Berlin
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Github Skills (12)
html10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
webvtt9
css9
mpeg-dash8
video-streaming6
ffmpeg6
dashjs6
low-latency6
react6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 276 reviews, 835 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the dash.js player by adding support for features like displaying thumbnail images, a settings menu, and a custom text track rendering. They implemented or modified various UI elements, including video controls and menu structures, and added code to correctly display captions. The user addressed code errors and fixed broken links while also introducing enhancements to existing features.
javascriptmpeg-dashdashdrmcmaf
5G-MAG/rt-5gms-examples
May 2023 - May 2026
This repository holds example projects that make use of other 5G-MAG repositories or provide additional functionalities to test and implement new features for 5GMS: 5G Media Streaming - Docker Compose Setup; Express Mock AF.
Contributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 23 PRs in 3 years 1 month
5gdocker-composestreaming
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