Excellent
Media Playback
Deliver smooth, reliable, and high-quality playback experiences across the widest range of embedded platforms. For more than
30 years, our team in Munich, Germany, has been enabling media playback on everything from high-end TVs and streaming products running Android or tvOS, to mobile devices and cost-optimized SoCs.
Our deep knowledge has been proven with playback solutions for consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and medical
applications, ensuring consistent performance across Android, iOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, NXP, Renesas, STM32, and more.
How We Can Help
Our services cover the entire development cycle: from technology scouting, consulting and system analysis to architecture design, prototyping, and full implementation. Whether you need to optimize existing systems, explore new technologies, or build from the ground up: you decide how much we support. With TARA Systems, you gain a flexible, trusted partner to ensure your media playback works flawlessly, everywhere.
Consulting
Analysis and Optimization
Architecture and Design
Prototyping and Implementation
Integration and Maintenance
Our Key Competence
Cost-Effective Solutions
We provide application-specific solutions based on freely available approaches. Our philosophy is to combine what's available with our expertise to build a media playback solution with the best UX for an affordable price.
Deep Format Understanding
Our deep understanding of media formats and streaming protocols enables us to integrate efficiently with existing components like backends or embedded video sources like cameras.
Versatile Playback
We provide solutions for any kind of media playback, including on-demand streaming, live streaming, low-latency and real-time streaming, and local media playback.
Content Protection Expertise
We have strong expertise with DRM systems like Widevine. We possess a deep understanding of available protection methods specific to the targeted use case.
Platform Independence
We always think about platform-independent approaches to keep technology variations low. This reduces efforts for releases and maintenance while supporting the required range of devices.
Monitoring & Analytics
Closely analyzing player behavior is key for a successful product. With our expertise in monitoring and analytics, we extract the necessary information to make the whole chain robust and achieve outstanding performance.
Why Work With Us?
We don’t just deliver player solutions; we take responsibility for the product. Our focus is on delivering value that drives your product’s success. With our long history in embedded devices and player technologies including implementation of high performant players for the TV market, we master the whole streaming chain.Â
Accelerate
Time-to-Market
By leveraging proven technologies and our deep expertise, we deliver robust solutions faster, getting your product into the hands of users sooner.
Effectively Reduce Technical Risk
Navigate the complexities of media playback with confidence. Our experience prevents costly mistakes and ensures a stable, reliable product launch.
Optimize Performance
and Cost
We design solutions that are perfectly tailored to your hardware, maximizing performance while respecting your budget and component costs.
Powering Media on Any Device
Consumer Electronics
Smart TVs, STBs, and streaming devices.​
Automotive
In-vehicle infotainment and rear-seat entertainment.​
Medical
High-resolution displays for diagnostics and monitoring.
Industrial and More
Digital signage, kiosks, and custom embedded UIs.​
Consumer Electronics
Smart TVs, STBs, and streaming devices.
Automotive
In-vehicle infotainment and rear-seat entertainment.
Medical
Smart TVs, STBs, and streaming devices.
Industrial & More
Digital signage, kiosks, and custom embedded UIs.
Selected Success Stories
Powering Quickline’s Android TV STB
We developed a hybrid UHD Android TV set-top box for Quickline that delivers a premium entertainment experience. By integrating ExoPlayer with our own optimizations, monitoring extensions, and support services, it sets new standards in speed, reliability, and user satisfaction. Read the Success Story.
Seamless Integration for A1 Group
For A1 Austria we replaced the existing media player with our high-performance Media Player, integrating advanced monitoring, DRM protection, and adaptive streaming technologies to deliver a superior viewing experience on set-top boxes nationwide. Read the Success Story.
Professional Inspection Systems
Low latency video handling combined with excellent user experience is a key element for professional inspection systems. Thanks to our experts in both areas, we developed full range of various tools in this area.
The Platforms We Support
TV and STB Platforms
Android TV, tvOS, FireTV, Tizen, WebOS, & more
Mobile Devices
Android & iOS phones and tablets
Generic Linux Platforms
Custom builds with Yocto Project, Buildroot, Raspberry Pi OS, etc.
Customer-Specific MPUs and MCUs
NXP i.MX Series, Renesas RZ/V, STM32 (MCU only MJPEG), Texas Instruments, Rapberry Pi
The Technologies We Use
Our OTT/IPTV Media Player
Our high-performant native media player for DASH and HLS, built for native Linux platforms.
Application: Mainly used for TV and STB platforms where performance and resource management are critical.
ExoPlayer / AVPlayer
Native application-level media players for Android and iOS/tvOS respectively. Highly customizable and extensible.
Application: Building high-quality, feature-rich video streaming apps on mobile and TV devices.
Shaka Player / Dash.js
Open-source JavaScript libraries for adaptive bitrate streaming (DASH/HLS) in web browsers.
Application: Powering robust video playback in web applications and on platforms like Tizen and WebOS.
GStreamer
A powerful pipeline-based multimedia framework for creating custom media processing workflows.
Application: Used in embedded Linux systems, like NXP iMX, for complex tasks like video conferencing, streaming servers, and camera integration.
FFMpeg
A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
Application: Media transcoding, format conversion, and as a base for many media players and editors.
WebRTC
Enables Real-Time Communication (RTC) in web browsers and mobile applications for peer-to-peer connections.
Application: Low-latency video chat, live broadcasting, and real-time data sharing applications like inspection cameras.
VLC
A highly versatile, open-source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia formats.
Application: Prototyping, testing, and as a reliable playback engine in various custom applications.
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