CMSD-MQA for Standards-Based, End-to-End Media Quality Monitoring

March 10, 2026
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Last winter, Norsk CEO Adrian Roe joined a workshop introducing a new, standards-based approach to quality monitoring built on the Common Media Server Data (CMSD) framework. CMSD-MQA (Media Quality Analysis) simplifies monitoring, surfaces hidden quality insights, and enables automated decision-making across your entire live streaming workflow.

The workshop explores and demonstrates how to capture valuable quality information at the moment it first becomes available, transport it downstream, and enable other components to decide whether to simply audit this information or actively react to it. All of this takes place in a standards-based, multi-vendor setup.

Adrian joins Will Law from Akamai, Brenton Ough from Touchstream, and Alexander Leschinsky from G&L Systemhaus. They guide you from motivation through theory and standards, into encoder and packager implementations, and finally to monitoring and automated reactions based on quality metrics.

 

Author

  • Eric is chief marketing officer for Norsk. He has nearly 20 years' experience in the streaming media industry, and more than 30 years' experience as a journalist. Prior to joining id3as, he was editor and VP of Streaming Media magazine and conference chair for Streaming Media's in-person and virtual events. A frequent speaker at industry events, he's presented or sat on panels at NAB, IBC, Northern Waves, Nordic TV Summit, and more. He was a senior reporter for MTVnews.com and a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines in the music press.

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