Enabling a Rich Media Experience

High Definition IPTV and Hybrid DVB STB

…for best performance and user experience

Today, the fourth generation of STB is available and addresses enhanced requirements for over-the-top (OTT) content delivery and user experience expectation. In addition to IPTV STB, hybrid DVB models enable new service offerings and interactive applications.

The flexible software framework provides open APIs for integration with native or browser based middleware clients and applications. For integration with today's internet media offerings, the software framework can be extended with a flexible media engine allowing de-multiplexing and decoding of the most popular container and codec format including flash video. In addition DLNA based media sharing is available for applications to allow in-home streaming or multi-room concepts.

While Albis Technologies does not develop its own applications, we partner with application vendors, to build sophisticated STB clients for standalone and interactive services.

Third Party Application

Enabling Rich Media Support

While traditional digital TV services are based on DVB and therefore MPEG technologies, all STB today natively support established standards. IPTV deployments today also rely on DVB standards leveraging IP technologies and protocols like IP multicasting or RTSP to setup VoD sessions.

Media Framework

However the Internet has become a place of intense media usage; downloading, sharing and consuming music, pictures and videos. Almost every household today has digital cameras, music players etc. Therefore the next logical step is to bring these contents to the TV set.

Contrary to the well defined DVB world, in the Internet environment a wide range of different audio, video-codecs and picture formats is used. While the end user does not really care about the source of contents, the challenge is to support all popular formats. Video is available today from internet sources with bit rates requiring support of hardware decoding. Although there is a certain trend to use H.264 for encoding video material, there are still a number of container formats which have to be supported.

Bearing these requirements in mind Albis Technologies has created a Unified Media Framework (UMF) which supports most of the popular formats. More Details about supported codec, container and streaming formats as well as in home media sharing scenarios can be found in the Application Note «Enabling Rich Media Experience on STBs» available for download below

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Angela Bianco
Phone +41 58 252 4777
info@albistechnologies.com

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Rich Media Application Note (English)

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