SMART-TV MIDDLEWARE
Smart-TV Middleware
The following structure shows the overall architecture of the smartTV middleware system.
Features
The overall features of the smartTV middleware are
General
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Provides various APIs for:
-clients on STB
-In-home networking
-extended home functionality - MW resides on Linux DVB API, Gstreamer
- Support of applications done using browser (HTML5, SVG) or native UI (OpenGL ES, directFB)
Push VoD server and client system
- Complete solution for playout of large data files via DVB network
- Integrates error recovery mechanisms (forward error correction)
CA systems / DRM systems
- CI / CI+ (certified)
- Irdeto CA (SCA, CCA) integrated
- NDS CA system integrated
- Integration of Verimatrix DRM
- Integration of MS Playready DRM
Standard STB features
- DVB Engine: Methods for channel search, channel lists, fav lists, LCN
- Handling of all kinds of DVB tables
- Support for DVB-S / S2, DVB-C, DVB-T / T2
- EPG handling: Accumulation of DVB-SI EPG using different rules. Storage in flash / memory
- Managed EPG handling (rich EPG): Support of different forms of Managed EPG pro-vided via IP
- SW update from USB interface, OTA (DSM-CC) or via IP from central server
- Videotext decoder
- Graphical user interface based on directFB, HTML-5, CE-HTML, Qt embedded
PVR features
- Advanced conflict and resource management handling for multituner systems
- Integration of SAT>IP and recording in conflict management
- Support of several transport stream recording
- Advanced content management on internal HDD, USB HDD, SMB shares
- Handling of EPG series recording, timer series, keyword series recording
- Re-Planning of recordings in case of begin time changes of planned recordings
SmartTV features
- Opera Devices web browser integrated for portal support
- Smooth Streaming
- HLS streaming
- HbbTV1.5 client integration using Opera Devices browser and own HbbTV stack
- Media player functionality for large number of formats and containers using FFMPEG
- NetRange portal with 500+ apps integrated
- Opera / Vewd portal integrated on some platforms
- VAST2.0 targeted advertising control interface integrated
Home Networking features
- Communication features for TCP/IP, SMB, IP over DVB download (Push VoD)
- UPnP libs for client (DMP), control (DMC) and server (DMS)
- SAT>IP server functionality for streaming live and recorded streams to mobile clients
- HLS Streaming, RTP / RTSP streaming functionality
Other third party SW on STB
- ftp client
- embedded web servers
- SQL database (SQLite)
- MHEG engine integration (UK and SA profile)
Recommender system integration
- Xroadmedia online recommender and search system
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