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DIGITAL MEDIA CONNECTED EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS FOR DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
OREGAN NETWORKS - TECHNOLOGY BRIEF 2007
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OREGAN™ MEDIA BROWSER Delivering Broadband and Broadcast Entertainment plus Connected Home Media To provide Consumer Electronics (CE) manufacturers and broadband network operators with a complete, seamless solution for delivery of Internet Protocol-based entertainment and communications to non-PC devices, we created Oregan™ Media Browser. Powered by Oregan's embedded software, hybrid set top boxes, DVRs, gaming consoles, flat panel TVs and portable devices are transformed into advanced digital entertainment products, with an ability to access media any time and seamlessly share downloaded photos, music and video between connected devices wirelessly. Oregan Media Browser consists of three building blocks: • TV BROWSER • IPTV CLIENT • DLNA PLAYER AND SERVER. The highly integrated architecture of Oregan Media Browser enables fast and efficient implementation of today's most advanced connected entertainment features via a single embedded software stack and a single user interface framework.
Content Sources
HOME NETWORK MEDIA
INTERNET, VOD & IPTV SERVICES
STREAMING MEDIA
Oregan™ Media Browser DLNA PLAYER & SERVER STREAMING MEDIA
TV BROWSER & UI ENGINE IPTV CLIENT
Target Devices
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BROADCAST TV
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OREGAN TV BROWSER 3.0 Advanced Web Interactivity and Targeted Services for Consumer Electronics APPLICATION A successful digital entertainment product is designed with the end consumer in mind, which means fast UI response times, enhanced interactivity and instant access to personalised, compelling content. Oregan TV Browser brings these features to mainstream Consumer Electronics (CE) and Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) via the integration of secure web browsing technologies with device connectivity and media streaming protocols. At the heart of Oregan's solution are W3C standards and a clean-room vector graphics rendering engine, enabling User Interfaces to be easily created and customized with popular XHTML or Adobe® Flash® content development tools. The browser module performs two functions: • Unified UI framework for open access web browsing, delivery of network-based media services and device configuration and controls; • Head-end middleware and 3rd party application integration via JavaScript extension API. The web-based user interface can be updated instantaneously allowing the operator to provision new content and design, such as branding refreshes, promotions and entertainment content as well as periodic software or feature upgrades.
STANDARDS
DISPLAY OPTIMISATION
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• Oregan TV Browser is a solution for display of Internet content on any TV screen size, including 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and high definition television formats.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)*
* The CEA-2014 standard is spearheaded by CEA and specifies the mechanisms for interoperable delivery of web-based services to devices, utilizing proven industry standards.
• Oregan's advanced 'safe area’ and ‘font-flooring’ technologies allow users to customise the viewing area and text size for any individual screen. • Oregan’s display engine utilises advanced rendering and colour correction techniques to create a flicker-free display for improved text legibility at smaller font sizes.
IPTV CLIENT MODULE Streaming Broadband Video, Music and Gaming APPLICATION Oregan’s IPTV module is an embedded client solution for user control and streaming of linear IPTV, VOD and ‘Push VOD’ services. Oregan’s solution addresses technical challenges of convergence Consumer Electronics brands who aim to enter the network entertainment market through launch of direct-to-device media services, as well as metro network operators, including cable, satellite, telecoms, and hospitality operators with plans to introduce IP services within compressed timescales. Optional inclusion of Oregan’s DLNA stack enables seamless sharing of downloaded content with multiple thin client devices on the home network. Oregan TV Browser 3.0 Specifications Networking Connectivity • • • •
IPv4, IPv6 HTTP, TCP, UDP PPPoE, PPPoA DHCP, Static IP, Auto IP
Media Formats
• Clean-room implementation of Adobe® Flash® 7.0 content rendering, performance optimised for embedded devices • JPEG, GIF, and PNG with 8-bit alpha mask • Audio and video codecs - as supported by the hardware platform
International Language Support
• US/UK English (Unicode / ASCII / UTF / ISO) • European: All ISO-Latin-2 including German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian • Asian: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Thai • Middle Eastern: Arabic and Hebrew with bi-directional display and input capability
Web & UI Authoring Formats • • • • • • •
XHTML 1.0 / HTML 4.01 CSS-2 / CSS-TV DOM-2 / Dynamic HTML JavaScript 1.5 with extensions API XML data parsing Frames / I-Frames SSL 3.0 with 128-bit encryption for secure transactions • XML-HTTP-Request enabling AJAX / Web 2.0 functionalities
Usability Features • • • • • •
Persistent cookies History, including frame context history User-defined favourite URL bookmarks Automatic URL prediction and suffix completion Pop-up advertisement blocking Multiple sessions and windows support
Television Display Optimisation • • • • •
TV resolutions 480i, 576i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p Widescreen 16:9 or standard 4:3 aspect ratios User controlled TV safe area adjustments Scaleable 16-bit vector fonts Interactive TV enabling with DVB-HTML or ATVEF syntax tags • Embedded Video-in-Graphics support • Alpha-blending of video with graphics
Navigation & Input Methods
• Free roaming pointer (thumbpad / trackball / mouse / PlayStation Dualshock) • Fixed cursor navigation (remote control - up / down / left / right) • On-screen / physical keyboard • Predictive text input and Input Method Editors (IME) • Remote Control multi-tap input • Fast-text colour hotkeys
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TELCO & CE ENTERTAINMENT ECOSYSTEM
STANDARDS
Pre-integration and/or Compatibility
BROADBAND VIDEO SERVICE DELIVERY COMPONENTS
Features
Technologies
Customisable Graphical User Interface
Web-based XHTML and Adobe® Flash® GUI engine
VOD streaming client with Quality of Service Management
UDP, TCP, HTTP, RTCP
VOD trickmode control – PAUSE / REW / FF
RTSP
IPTV multicast
IGMP, RTSP
Multilingual EPG and PVR applications
Enabled through JavaScript extension API
Presence and context management
IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)
TELCO GRADE VIDEO SERVER / ENCODER SOLUTIONS Microsoft, Kasenna, SeaChange, BitBand, nCube, Concurrent, Tandberg, Harmonic, Optibase. DRM & CAS SOLUTIONS Microsoft DRM-10, Widevine, Verimatrix, Latens, SecureMedia. DVB & ATSC STACKS Logiways, Cabot, S&T GAMING SOLUTIONS Softbank G-Cluster, Yahoo Games, Accedo, Games4TV. WEB BASED CONTENT SERVICES CinemaNow, Yahoo, AOL, Napster, Rhapsody and Microsoft PlaysForSure compliant audio and video services.
DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE (DLNA) MODULE Enabling Multi-room Entertainment APPLICATION Oregan’s DLNA module is a fast-track compliance and certification solution enabling manufacturers of IP-connected TVs, PVRs, Portable Media Players, Wi-Fi handsets and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to build in the interoperability standards prescribed by the DLNA organisation. Oregan’s DLNA module employs a UPnP AV device and content discovery framework for streaming of personal and commercial media, such as photos and home videos, as well as downloaded music and movies from either a Windows PC or an embedded media server. The module consists of two architectural components: a UPnP media server and UPnP media client stack with integrated Control Point.
PERSONAL COMPUTER
STREAMING MEDIA
ACCESS POINT
IP SET TOP BOX
TELEVISION
CONNECTED CE DEVICES
STANDARDS DLNA Player Features • Automatic discovery of multiple media servers and content. • Streaming of music, photos and video from a PC or other attached storage devices including USB, memory cards and NAS. • Multiple audio and video codec support* with rewind and fast-forward trickmodes. • Slideshows with music, zoom, and rotation. • Supporting Powerline, Wired Ethernet or Wireless networks, with automatic site survey and WEP/WPA encryption. • Playlists in M3U / ASX / WAX formats. • Display of metadata associated with media files, including ID3 tags and metadata from Gracenote or All Media Guide (AMG). • Proven interoperability with leading UPnP servers: Windows Media Player 11, Windows® Media Connect, Twonky MediaServer, UEI Simple Center, Philips Media Manager, Nokia Home Media Server, Nokia N Series phones.
DLNA Server Features • Oregan’s implementation is based on UPnP AV specifications, and enables transparent discovery and streaming of various media over a HTTP transport layer from a PVR, Hybrid IP-STB or Home Media Gateway running Oregan Media Browser. • Real-time transcoding service enables playback of media formats, not supported natively by the CE media client.* • Web based settings manager enables configuration of networked media clients remotely via a PC.
• Microsoft Windows Media DRM 10 support for PlaysForSure -certified audio and video services.
• Real-time transrating service dynamically controls video bitrate for Quality of Service (QoS) and enables multiple video streams to be maintained over a wireless network.*
• Intel® Viiv™ and AMD® Live™ server interoperability, allowing remote access to downloaded content and services from PC.
* Feature depends on hardware specifications. www.oregan.net
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DEVELOPMENT AND CUSTOMISATION ENVIRONMENT Modular and Extensible Architecture OREGAN MEDIA BROWSER - CLIENT ARCHITECTURE INTERNET WEB SITES
WEB BASED CONTENT SERVICES
IPTV & VOD SERVICES
CONTENT & SERVICES FROM HOME NETWORK & INTERNET
OREGAN DLNA SERVER ARCHITECTURE
DIGITAL TV BROADCAST
JAVASCRIPT EXTENSIONS & PLUG-IN API CUSTOMER EXTENSIONS & HEAD-END MIDDLEWARE INTERFACE
DRM
JVM
MHP / MHEG
VoIP
UPnP AV RENDERER
Wireless 802.11g
CONTENT & SERVICES FROM HOME NETWORK & INTERNET
IPTV CLIENT
CONNECTION MANAGER
CONTENT DIRECTORY SERVICE
• RTSP CONTROL CLIENT UPnP AV CONTROL POINT • IGMP / MULTICAST CLIENT
• BROADBAND AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR LINEAR IPTV CHANNELS BROWSING Pre-integrated with leading telco • TRICK-MODE SUPPORT grade video servers, encoders • DTCP-IP AND MICROSOFT LINK and DRMs. PROTECTION
UPnP AV TRANSPORT HTTP, TCP/IP, RTP
VIDEO STREAM QoS MANAGER
DATA ACCESS AND MANIPULATION LAYER FILE AND DATA SEARCH
FILETYPE PARSER
EMBEDDED OPERATING SYSTEM & NETWORK STACK
EMBEDDED HARDWARE PLATFORM IP-STB, GAME CONSOLE, DIGITAL MEDIA ADAPTOR, NETWORK DVD, NETWORK PVR, NETWORK TV, PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICE, 3G & WiFi PHONES
PLAYLIST PARSER
METADATA PARSER
AUDIO AND VIDEO TRANSCODING / TRANSRATING
OREGAN ABSTRACTION LAYER (OAL)
OREGAN MEDIA PLAYER
OREGAN ABSTRACTION LAYER (OAL) HARDWARE DRIVERS & MEDIA CODECS
Powerline
Wired Ethernet
UPNP AV SERVER STACK
USER INTERFACE SKIN OREGAN TV BROWSER DLNA PLAYER XHTML, JAVASCRIPT, DOM, CSS & MACROMEDIA FLASH RENDERING
PERSONAL PHOTOS, MUSIC & FOLDERS
OPERATING SYSTEM, HARDWARE DRIVERS & NETWORKING STACK CONSUMER PC, NAS DEVICE, NETWORK PVR, MEDIA GATEWAY VIDEO PLAY AUDIO CD & PHOTO AUDIO FILES LISTS DVD ROM FILES FILES
Oregan integrates with complementary third-party technologies via a set of well-defined but fully extensible JavaScript APIs to enable head-end middleware, DRM / CAS, digital broadcast, DVD-R and PVR feature integration.
Ease of Portability to Silicon and OS Platforms Full source code access to the Oregan Abstraction Layer (OAL) enables the functional modules of Oregan's software to be readily implemented on a variety of embedded silicon platforms by Oregan or its customers.
Optimised Processes and Costs • Oregan Media Browser is available as a fully modular, platform independent set of technology building blocks, or as a ready-to-market networked media product reference design on a variety of leading chipset platforms. • The three modules work in unison, integrated tightly and sharing common functionalities wherever appropriate. Alternatively, the modules may be applied independently, as required to meet a particular product specification. Minimum platform resource allocation: • Embedded code footprint: 2 MB Flash
• Execution memory usage: 8 MB SDRAM
• Recommended CPU performance: 150 MIPS
Options for Product Customisation End product form factor
Hybrid Digital TV and IP-STB, Home Media Gateway, Digital Media Player, Network PVR, Network DVD, Network TV, Portable Media Player, 3G & Wi-Fi phone
Graphical User Interface
Options to customise Oregan’s default user interface or create a unique GUI using widely available web and graphics design tools, e.g. Adobe® Flash® MX, Dreamweaver®. UI components may contain PNG transparencies and alpha-blending effects.
Chipsets and codecs
Sigma Designs, ST Micro, Pixelworks (Equator), IBM, Cirrus Logic, Toshiba, ATI, Intel, Texas Instruments, VIA, Conexant, NXP and Broadcom
End user service model
• Carrier-grade scalable IPTV and VOD services • Web based “over the top” media content services to CE devices
Operating Systems
Linux, µItron, Nucleus, VxWorks, WinCE, Windows XP, RISC OS, µCLinux
UI Fonts & Localisation
English, European, Asian and Middle Eastern
Functionalities
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Online content services Interactive TV applications IPTV and VOD services Home network media distribution
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Enabling Future-Proof Products REMOTE DEVICE UPGRADE Devices powered by Oregan’s solutions can be retrospectively enabled with new features and support for emerging media codecs and interoperability standards from W3C, CEA and DLNA. OREGAN'S WEB SERVICES FRAMEWORK Oregan’s suite of XML data feed applications enables consumer electronics brands and telco operators to launch targeted interactive web services expediently, whilst benefiting from the ability of Oregan TV Browser 3.0 to deliver content designed in XHTML 1.0, Adobe® Flash®, and JavaScript (DOM- 2). The package provides the business logic, data sourcing and feature customisation framework for easy creation of web-based portals optimised for TVs and portable devices.
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On-demand movies Internet radio News TV guide
• Weather • Recipes • Stocks
FOCUS ON CONSUMER BENEFITS • Enable your consumers to connect to compelling personalised entertainment content sources at any time. • Ensure ease of use and a responsive UI with XHTML and AJAX based UI technologies. • Provide industry wide device interoperability with DLNA standards. • Respond to customer demand promptly by customising and extending features. ENHANCE YOUR PRODUCT & CORPORATE BRAND • Control the user experience by developing your own navigation model and branded UI. • Enable repeat revenues via provisioning of online portals and content services. DESIGN FOR OPTIMAL COST, VALUE & PERFORMANCE • Reduce device hardware costs through reduced CPU requirements and an economical code footprint. • Reduce time to market, via fully-integrated media browser solutions. • Manage return rates, technology obsolescence, and product life-cycle via remote upgrade feature.
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