Quickline UHD Android TV Set-Top Box Android Pie and our TV middleware come together in a premium set-top box TARA Systems as a partner for the realisation of TV products...
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.
Replay Guide Using Microservices
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...
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...
Android TV 10 on BCM 7271
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...
Inaris based STB Solutions on Montage SoC
As porting of the Inaris DVB Middleware has been done last year on top of a real-time operating system, we have now also added support for Linux based deployments. With...
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.
Media Player WiFi Readiness
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...
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 HbbTV for Android with Java based Middleware
The Inaris HbbTV Solution for Android TV has already been ported to the TV Input Framework to run on top of any TV Input Service. For Android applications which are...
Inaris Supports Cloud-Based Analytics
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...
Quickline STB UX Optimisation
For the Quickline (QL) Android TV UHD STB project an intensive phase of optimization and performance improvements has been completed. Through the improved interaction of the client with the different...
Using Android Treble for Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware
With the introduction of Treble Google improved the way of how Android is accessing the device hardware. With Treble there is now a clear separation between Android SDK and vendor's...
Android 9 Pie on Broadcom SoC
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...
HbbTV Test Suite Executed with LiveOn TV Android Application
The LiveOn TV application is our reference application for integration of the Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware on Android TV devices. We integrated also our Inaris HbbTV Solution based on Chromium into...
Quickline launches Android TV STB
Quickline launches its hybrid UHD Android TV STB which combines classic TV with on-demand content. TARA contributes its TV middleware and the player for DVB and OTT media streams as...
LiveOn TV running on Sagemcom STBs
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,...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Verimatrix Ultra Security for Android TV
We integrated the Verimatrix ViewRight Ultra client with our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware for an Android TV device.
OIPF for Android
OIPF - the standardized TV API used by HbbTV - can now also be used by Android Java applications to access our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware.
Inaris Middleware on Android Oreo
Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware is now ported and tested on Android O.
Inaris HbbTV on Android TV at Medientage Munich
At Medientage 2017 in Munich, we demonstrated our Inaris HbbTV Solution running on AndroidTV including support for the HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband (ADB) standard.
Showcasing HbbTV on Android TV with Chromium
At IBC, we will showcase at Google’s Android TV Summit how operators and manufacturers can enhance their Android TV applications with HbbTV functionality using the Inaris HbbTV Solution and the...
Android TV on BCM7271
The InarisTvInputService is now also working on BCM7271 based hardware with Android N.
Inaris now on Android N
We now support Android N for watching live TV with our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware. We are working on combining OTT with classic live TV for new features like Replay TV...
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.
HbbTV on Android TV
We will shortly introduce our HbbTV Solution also for Android TV. This includes the current HbbTV 1.5 Solution as well as the new components developed for HbbTV 2.0. Even further...
TIF Extension for DVB Scanning Feature
In cooperation with the major European network operator, we extended TIF to support DVB scanning.
Inaris and Android AOSP on Marvell BG4-CT Reference Board
The Inaris DVB Service now runs on the Marvell ARMADA 1500 Ultra /88DE3218 (BG4-CT) reference board as a SAT>IP client on top of Android AOSP. However any DVB tuner can...
Inaris on Android TV
We successfully added Teletext to our integration of Inaris DVB Middleware on Android TV.
Inaris TV Middleware now runs on the Google Nexus Player
We created an app with underlying Inaris DVB / IPTV Middleware realizing the TvInputService of the Android 5.0 TV input framework and using SAT>IP as data source. Thereby Google’s AndroidTV...