Category: Android TV

Quickline now offers the blue Sport channels on their Android TV Box. We enabled this by integrating the Blue WebApp with the Quickline application. An Android WebView is used to...

End of last year, Google made their DVB Broadcast Stack available to their partners as an extension to Android TV...

2021 started in January with the Android TV Partner Summit. TARA Systems joined this virtually organized event.

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)...

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.

The QL UHD STB provides more than 130 TV channels and up to seven days of Replay TV. This is a huge amount of content and users need some guidance...

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...

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...

The changes and improvements that are coming with Android TV 10 are more under-the-hood and not so visible to the user. Dynamic partitions, higher security and privacy, improved energy consumption...

As porting of the Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution has been done last year on top of a real-time operating system, we have now also added support for Linux based deployments. With...

We now passed the Google certification for Android TV Pie with the Quickline UHD STB. This allows us to further increase the user experience.

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...

For OTT streaming operators, it is of the highest importance to ensure that their customers always get premium quality of their content. Our HLS player supports adaptive streaming, where the...

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...

Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware has now been extended to support cloud-based analytics systems. This is especially of interest for connected devices where it is intended to collect and analyse information...

Android 9 Pie for Android TV is coming and the first approved builds are now available. We already ported our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware stack and also our reference TV application...

Our LiveOn TV reference application is now up and running on Sagemcom Android TV UHD STBs. Besides of live TV functionality using the internal tuner, SAT>IP, IPTV and channel management,...

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 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...

Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware is now integrated on the HiSilicon platform with Android O.

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...

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...

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. 

We integrated the Verimatrix ViewRight Ultra client with our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware for an Android TV device.

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...

OIPF - the standardized TV API used by HbbTV - can now also be used by Android Java applications to access our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware.

The InarisTvInputService is now also working on BCM7271 based hardware with Android N.

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...

The custom designed Live TV application running on Amazon Fire TV is now ported to Nvidia Shield TV.

In cooperation with the major European network operator, we extended TIF to support DVB scanning.