# DASH-IF Conformance Software

This repository provides the source code for MPEG-DASH/DASH-IF Conformance Software/Validator. It has been extended
according to further standards, such as CMAF, DVB-DASH, HbbTV, and CTA WAVE.

## News

To stay up to date about latest changes, new release candidates and new releases please join our Google Group and our
Slack channel:

* Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/joint-conformance-software-project-jccp
* Slack invitation: https://join.slack.com/t/dashif/shared_invite/zt-egme869x-JH~UPUuLoKJB26fw7wj3Gg . Join the #jccp
  channel to stay up to date.

## Hosted versions

DASH-IF provides hosted versions of the Conformance Tools. Currently this is done as follows:

|URL| Version                             |Branch|
|---|-------------------------------------|---|
|https://conformance.dashif.org/| Latest stable release |                               |https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/DASH-IF-Conformance/releases/latest|
|https://staging.conformance.dashif.org/| Current development version          |development|

We have recently upgraded all hosted versions to the 3.x release cycle. The last 2.x release is version [2.4.1](https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/DASH-IF-Conformance/releases/tag/v2.4.1), which can be deployed locally but no longer has a hosted version.

## Installation

For the complete installation including dependencies etc, please refer
to [Installation guide]( https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/DASH-IF-Conformance/wiki/Installation--guide).

## Usage and documentation
For more details on how to use the Conformance Software please refer to our [Wiki](https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/DASH-IF-Conformance/wiki).

## Development

We very much appreciate all your code contributions to the project. To be compliant with our development guidelines
please checkout
the [development principles](https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/DASH-IF-Conformance/wiki/Development-principles) and
also the [release procedure](https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/DASH-IF-Conformance/wiki/Release-Procedure).

## API documentation

A hosted version of the Doxygen API documentation can be found at https://dashif.org/DASH-IF-Conformance/

## Issue Reporting

Issues can be reported on this repository.