Android TV 11 comes with new foundational improvements such as enhanced security, improved memory management, one-time app permissions, and also enhancements tailored specifically for TV, like the new Tuner Framework...
Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution on Android TV 11
Quickline Partnership on a New Level
In these times, TV consumption at home has significantly grown. This can also be seen in the increased sales of TV devices. The network operators register a stronger demand in...
Launching and Enhancing the Ghana HD+ Decoder
Only half a year ago, SES launched their HD+ service in Ghana to deliver premium TV picture quality to Ghanaian households. We are contributing to this project by providing the major part...
Pre-integration of Synamedia (formerly Cisco) VQE Client
We have now pre-integrated the VQE Client from Synamedia (formerly Cisco) into our Inaris Media Player. The VQE Client is a widely used solution to support IPTV services. Besides receiving the RTP...
Blue WebApp integrated on the Quickline TV Set-Top Box
Quickline now offers the blue Sport channels on their UHD Android TV Box. We enabled this by integrating the Blue WebApp with the Quickline application. An Android WebView is used to...
Feature Extensions on the Montage SoC
The Montage SoC is a very attractive SoC for STBs in cost-sensitive markets. While the hardware costs are low, customers are still demanding a high level of functionality in their...
Evaluation of the Google Broadcast Stack
End of last year, Google made their DVB Broadcast Stack available to their partners as an extension to Android TV. We are currently walking through the code and its functionality...
TARA joined the Android TV Partner Summit 2021
Our 2021 started with the Android TV Partner Summit. TARA Systems joined this virtually organised event. We got valuable insight into Google’s Android TV roadmap and the focus on improvements...
HD Television for Ghana​
Improved picture quality and easier distribution of new TV content for a West African country – this intention brought the already long-time collaborating partners of SES and TARA Systems together...
DVB-I and HbbTV: A Device Manufacturer Perspective in the EBU Working Group
With the LiveOn TV application, we developed a flexible and powerful tool to prototype and demonstrate DVB-I distributions. To share best-practices around HbbTV and DVB-I, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)...
Quickline UHD TV Box Success Story Update
To raise customer experience and satisfaction to a new level, Quickline is continuing its long-term partnership with TARA Systems and the other involved parties. As a result of this close...
Replay Guide on the Android TV Launcher
With the Replay Guide, we integrated an advanced feature on the Quickline UHD set-top box. It shows recommendations and most-watched programme events to the user.Android Pie, with its focus on...
Replay Guide Using Microservices
The Quickline UHD STB provides more than 200 TV channels and up to seven days of Replay TV. This is a huge amount of content and users need some guidance to find...
Integration of NAGRA CA with Inaris certified on Montage SoC
On the Montage SoC, we have now successfully completed and certified the integration of our Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution and the NAGRA CA system. The integration was done for an RTOS-based...
TARA participated in the Android TV Virtual Bootcamp 2020
Like last year the TARA Systems team participated in the Android TV Bootcamp. However, due to Covid-19, this time the bootcamp virtually took place and was based on presentations and...
Microservices for TV Backend
We now dive into microservice architecture for extending existing TV backend systems of our customers. Lightweight microservices written in Go, storing data in a NoSQL database, using Docker allow adding...
Google Certification for Android Pie Passed
We now passed the Google certification for Android TV Pie with the Quickline UHD STB. This allows us to further increase the user experience. So it’s now possible to adapt...
WebVTT Subtitle Decoder Integrated with Inaris HLS Player​
With HLS based OTT streaming DVB or Teletext subtitle formats used by broadcast services are no longer supported. Instead, HLS uses WebVTT for subtitles. We integrated the WebVTT subtitle decoder...
Bandwidth Measurement with Inaris HLS Player​
For media streaming the available IP bandwidth is important to ensure a good quality of the video/audio playback, especially when WiFi is used. We extended our Inaris HLS Media Player...
Inaris HLS Player Used for Quickline UHD Set-Top Box
The Inaris HLS Player is used for the Quickline UHD set-top box for the playback of live TV, replay content and network PVR via OTT. The high requirements for fast...
Public Broadcaster ORF Internally Uses TARA’s Android TV Solution​​
The Austrian public broadcaster ORF uses our Android TV solution as a player for their internal broadcast distribution. The solution is based on our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware which receives the...
Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware integrated on HiSilicon with Android O​
Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware is now integrated on the HiSilicon platform with Android O. We use the hardware features of the SoC and also directly access the onboard tuner to...
HbbTV for OTT services shown at IBC 2018
Together with IRT and the OTT streaming service Zattoo, we demonstrated on this year's IBC how the HbbTV ADB (Application Discovery over Broadband) standard can be used to bring HbbTV...
HLS for VoD Everywhere (HiSilicon)​
VOD Everywhere is an end-to-end solution from SES to bring high-quality content to set-top boxes for emerging markets, where no or only low bandwidth Internet connections are available. The content...
HLS with Alternate Audio Streams​
With HLS one or more audio streams can be combined with the video stream in one multiplex. However, if multiple high-quality audio streams are to be supported using only one...
LiveOn TV App Using OIPF For Android​
We created a reference TV application for Android devices - LiveOn TV. This application uses our new OIPF for Android API for all TV specific features and is a great...
HLS with Verimatrix for Android TV​
We extended our Inaris HLS Solution to support encrypted media streams. In a first step, we integrated HLS with Verimatrix ViewRight OTT client on an Android TV platform. To fulfill the...
HLS for OTT Services​
Live TV services are more and more provided by standard Internet connections as OTT services. HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) originally defined by Apple is a widely used streaming protocol for...
PushVoD feature integrated in Inaris
As part of the cooperation between SES and TARA Systems, the PushVoD feature has been integrated in Inaris Middleware. An STB prototype has been shown at IBC 2017. We have...
VoD Everywhere: Live Demo at IBC
The IBC live showcase will demonstrate how satellite distribution can provide an instantaneous and enriched video experience on demand – even in areas with no or limited broadband internet connectivity....
Nagra Pre-Integration on Broadcom​
The Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware has for many years been prepared for CA system integration. In former projects the integration and certification was done by our customers or partners. Now we...
PushVoD Content Reception
For PushVoD content reception, the push technology from Quadrille has been integrated. The video content incl. the corresponding meta-data are received via satellite and stored locally. It is now possible...
HbbTV Inter-Device Media Synchronisation,
With HbbTV 2, broadcasters are able to provide their viewers synchronised media content on companion devices. Use cases are for example second camera perspectives of a sports event or sign...
Android TV on BCM7252S – extended​
The linear TV experience with Android N on BCM7252S have been extended. Beside the support of standard DVB features like Teletext and Subtitles, also custom specific back-end server accesses have...
Automatic testing with HbbTV Test Suite V9.0
In December 2016, the HbbTV Testing Group released the new version 9.0 of the official HbbTV Test Suite. Starting with this release, the HbbTV Test Suite includes also tests for HbbTV...
Inaris on Nvidia Shield TV enables Live TV​
The custom designed Live TV application running on Amazon Fire TV is now ported to Nvidia Shield TV. It enables the playback of high quality linear TV by accessing a...
Teletext on Android TV
In addition to video and subtitles, a number of other services are available for DVB broadcast TV that shouldn't be overlooked here. As an introduction to the connection of additional...