title: Simple mpeg dash playlist with segments of varying length
body: <p>I am wondering if there is a "simple" way of writing a DASH playlist that just contains a list of h264/AAC mp4 files of varying length. The spec seems to limit varying sizes to the live profile - which again requires the use of a segment template - which again requires segments to be easily enumerable.
  My segments have unique ids - and in this way can not be described by a template url ... so am i missing any easy way around this issue?</p>
  
  <p>My perfect world scenario would look a bit like this - but does not seem to make any dash player happy:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;MPD type="static" xmlns="urn:mpeg:dash:schema:mpd:2011" minBufferTime="PT1.50S" mediaPresentationDuration="PT0H0M30S" profiles="urn:mpeg:dash:profile:isoff-main:2011"&gt;
  &lt;BaseURL&gt;http://myServer/videoSegments&lt;/BaseURL&gt; 
      &lt;Period start="PT0S"&gt;
          &lt;AdaptationSet bitstreamSwitching="false"&gt;
              &lt;Representation id="0" mimeType="video/mp4" codecs="avc1.4D401F" startWithSAP="1" width="640" height="480" frameRate="25" sar="1:1"  bandwidth="643595"&gt;
                  &lt;SegmentList&gt;
                      &lt;S media="start.mp4" d="9100" r="0"/&gt;
                      &lt;S media="stop.mp4" d="20900" r="0"/&gt;
                  &lt;/SegmentList&gt;
              &lt;/Representation&gt;
          &lt;/AdaptationSet&gt;
      &lt;/Period&gt;
  &lt;/MPD&gt;
  </code></pre>