4th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

Imagine your TV informs you about available additional content to the TV program you are just watching. Imagine the notification is sent to your mobile or tablet automatically and you can access the content just by clicking on the notification. This is possible using HbbTV on TV and FAMIUM.browser on your mobile device conforming W3C standard: Webscreen. The connection and synchronisation of both devices is done automatically via Network Service Discovery using UPnP. We demonstrates this scenario in a showcase that contains additional information for an advertisement that is shown in a commercial break during a HbbTV program on a second screen device. In addition to that we will demonstrate adaptive streaming (DASH) based dynamic ad-insertion to splice ad videos into the actual play-out stream directly.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) is the upcoming streaming standard for the Web and will harmonize Internet based video delivery among various end systems. Our FAMIUM.wall solution uses DASH to stream one videos to many clients keeping the playback completely synchronized between all screens. We demonstrate to stream a 4k video – split in four or nine HD videos – playing synchronously across the screens.

Commercial solutions for playing protected content in a browser require a plug-in.

We demonstrates a solution which is based on the upcoming W3C standards Media Source Extensions (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). The FAMIUM.browser which supports these standards is able to stream Microsoft PlayReady DRM-protected videos. The demonstration also visualises the process of key exchange and decryption between browser, CDM and CDMI. The CDMI is an open interface for accessing a platform DRM Content Decryption Module (CDM) and is not specific to PlayReady, Microsoft’s DRM. It can be used by a User-agent to expose CDM functionality as specified by the W3C HTML Encrypted Media Extensions without licensing DRM technology.

During this demonstration we introduce our tool chain for DASH and DRM media creation and streaming. The demonstration features video capturing followed by DASH conversion / segmentation and protection by PlayReady Microsoft DRM. You will see how to operate our tools to create PlayReady protected DASH content to be streamed be am HTTP-Server to be consumed be State-of-the-art mobile and fixed devices.

Raspberry Pis are low-budget devices that leverage hardware capabilities for encoding and decoding. Based on our tool chain for DASH and DRM content creation, we created specific extended builds that can be run on Raspberry Pis to generate live and on-demand content. We showcase live transcoding and segmentation of a plugged camera. The generated DASH output will be multi-bitrate audio and video. The whole architecture consists of mutliple Pis that are interconnected and jointly create mutliple bitrate representations of the input signal.

This demo will introduce our recommendation engine, algorithms and framework to you. RaaS is using those components offering a comfortable interface enabling software developers to create manage and deploy custom made recommendation engine designed for certain tasks and objectives. You will see how to create a Recommendation Engine and how to apply it to a certain application domain.

DASH content protection with PlayReady

VoD and Live TV premium content to Windows, Android and iOS devices, using MPEG-DASH

Driving DASH industry adoption for VoD and Live TV premium content protection: Starting from Common Encryption applied to MPEG-DASH we are able to playback streamed content in the browser without plugins via W3C Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions and offer an HTML5 integration via EME and MSE. The Microsoft’s open specification of a Content Decryption Module Interface (CDMi) enables abstraction of the EME to the DRM system on platform level in an interoperable way. This demo showcases the reference implementation of the CDMi together with the Microsoft PlayReady DRM to playback DRM-protected media content on a set top box-like Unix environment using a Chromium browser with an integrated PlayReady CDM.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Web content usage customization

• Enable HTML5 content to be divided into the multiple components and to be distributed to each browser on multiple devices

• Estimate the current device environment for the optimal component assignment
• Provide a suitable user interface for enabling web content move from device to device
• Easily create web contents for cooperative use between devices with the authoring tool

Lightweight platform for HbbTV Services

Prototyping, Validation and Demo

multithek combines broadcast and broadband. The hybrid approach by MEDIA BROADCAST enables OTT-programs and services complimentary to the DTT offering. The HbbTV-based portal is shown as a separate channel on the TV set. Broadcast and IP contents are presented in a truly seamless way: by listing the portal and additional IP-based linear programs in the EPG. The user selects both broadcast and IP channels via the channel buttons on the remote. Navigation on the portal is based on the 5-button principle – guiding the user and offering OTT content without overloading.

Media & Entertainment

Media Commerce with MPEG DASH

• The Oracle Media Commerce solution enables personalized, content-led commerce, totally-flexible transactions and seamless customer journeys
• Integration with Fraunhofer MPEG DASH streaming solutions

PARS

A Multiscreen Web App Platform

A PARS web app consists of components that can run distributed on a set of devices. Any component can be moved or replicated to another device in the middle of execution. The platform is based on standard HTML5, with a minimal extension, e.g., the Presentation API under discussion in the W3C Second Screen CG.

SmartTV Application

The theme-channel around real estate

• Property search via 2^nd screen: connecting smartphone, tablet and Smart TV to one seamless experience

• Intelligent interweaving of search results with local information: video of districts, sociodemographic trends and price development
• Information and inspiration through ImmobilienScout24’s all-round real estate channel
• Exciting reports from partners and customers of the real estate business

In cooperation with Fraunhofer FOKUS, ImmobilienScout24 has developed the first SmartTV-App focusing on real estate. Showcasing valuable information and inspiration on a TV screen and highlighting all aspects around building, home and lifestyle.

Nanooq

The World‘s First Mobile White-Label OS

“Nanooq” is the world’s first mobile white label operating system for smartphones, tablets and netbooks. It is based on Mozilla’s open
operating system and can be quickly tailored to the individual needs of network operators and enterprise customers for a modest outlay. Nanooq has been developed especially for web apps and cloud services. The product offers an ideal solution for all companies requiring a flexible and cost-effective mobile device solution. Nanooq is particularly suitable with niche market solutions such as for elderly users or for kids’ smartphones and tablets, but also for mobile POS solutions in the retail environment. In the presented Nanooq version, an in-house Mobile TV service has already been integrated via HTML5 into the Lock and Home screens of the operating system. 

Interactive Video

BitTubes GmbH is a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. Our technology allows the viewer to interact with objects within a video and access any kind of supplemental information, such as websites, documents or other multimedia content.

We will showcase how interactive content is created and distributed through cloud based media services to any type of device ranging from PCs, Smartphones, Tablets to Smart TVs. The HTML5 based solution offers players and tools for both, media companies as well as individual users to create, manage and share interactive content through object-based media annotations, comments and supplemental information across Social networks custom made media campaigns.

Cutting edge ICT platforms

• Part of the Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) programme supported by the European Commission
• delivers a common technical platform to build, host and operate content applications
• offers interested developers and SMEs runtime containers and a catalogue of homogeneous APIs
• Social Connected TV – multi-screen interaction, personalized TV experience
• Smart City Services – open city database, smart city apps, interactive UGC
• Pervasive Games – augmented reality, blending real and virtual worlds, toys and city wide games