[iptv-users] Open source IPTV bits

[Frank Bulk - iName.com]

Certain content providers require encryption/conditional-access -- best of
luck trying to get them to approve an opensource DRM.  You need all the
funding and resources of companies like Verimatrix, Widevine, Latens,
Irdeto, Nagravision, etc to make that happen.

>From my perspective, if a telco wants to provide IP TV, after all the market
and business research, the next thing to work on is content and encryption.
The middleware, STBs, and network generally falls into place after that.
Fortunately, there are companies that will help with the content licensing
process (i.e. TeleChannel, National Telco TV Consortium, NRTC, and NCTC).

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: iptv-users-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:iptv-users-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Charles Wyble
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:25 PM
To: iptv-users at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [iptv-users] Open source IPTV bits

Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
> If there's one thing I've learned about IPTV since getting into it, it's
> that IP TV in the home is very different than the service provider space.


Can you expand on that a bit?

You mean delivery to end users vs wholesale?

> One reason that open source isn't a starter, at least in North America, is
> the requirement by content providers for conditional access.

Hmmmm. A quick search reveals https://dream.dev.java.net/ (archived yes).

These things are solvable problems. :)



> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iptv-users-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:iptv-users-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Charles Wyble
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:40 PM
> To: iptv-users at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [iptv-users] Open source IPTV bits
> 
> I figure I should start another thread about this....
> 
> 
> Here is a copy/paste from a mind map I have done.
> 
> Content Acquisition
>      MythTV
>      TvHeadEnd
>      FuriousTV
> Server Side
>      Content Acquisition
>          MythTV
>          TvHeadEnd
>          FuriousTV
>      Middleware
>          Toroid
>          Streamnik
>          Mim
>          Motama
> Middleware
>      Toroid
>      Streamnik
>      Mim
>      Motama
> 
> Still figuring out IPTV infrastructure/architecture. Any good 
> books/papers on this? The wikipedia page is pretty complete.
> 
> 
> TvHeadEnd http://lonelycoder.com/hts/ seems fairly mature.
> Toroid http://www.toroid.tv/ is fairly new.
> Motama http://www.motama.com/ is a pretty mature project.
> 
> 
> 
> I recently read an article in light reading covering Cisco solutions. 
> http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=177356&print=yes
> 
> and some interesting links to other tests they had done (like the CRS1).
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