Introduction of IPTV and MHP

Speaker: 簡怡婷
110/12/08
 Outline
Introduction of IPTV
What is IPTV – Definition
IPTV Value Chain
Technique
Introduction of MHP
Introduction of MHP
Basic Architecture
MHP Internal Interfaces
Xlet - MHP Application
MHP Application
IPTV implementation of ISMP

Homework
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 What is IPTV - Definition

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) means a kind

of service platform and system where various
audiovisual multimedia services are delivered
using Internet Protocols over a network
infrastructure.

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 Service
Audiovisual multimedia services
TV Broadcast
Pay Per View
Film download
Radio
TV shopping
Interactive Video
Game
…
Communications services
Data and information services
…

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 IPTV Value Chain

IPTV value chain is composed of four major players

Content Provider; Service Provider; Network Provider; Customer

Satellite Contents Wireless Notebook

Terrestrial content receiving system network TV
TV program Security system Wire network Mobile device
Contents DB Value-added
Additional contents processing 5
provider system
 Technique

DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)

MHP (Multimedia Home Platform)

OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative)

UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)

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 DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)

There are several sub-standard of the DVB stand

ard :
DVB-S (Satellite)
DVB-T (Terrestrial)
DVB-H (Handheld)
DVB-C (Cable)
IPTV

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 DVB in Taiwan

DVB-T

DVB-H
Delivered at 2007

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 Introduction of MHP
Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) is an open mid
dleware system standard designed by the DVB project fo
r interactive digital television

MHP solution encompasses the whole set of technologie

s necessary to implement, including protocols, common l
anguages (API), interface, and recommendations.

The main purpose of MHP is to provide a common interfa

ce for multimedia application (Xlet) on the digital TV platf
orm.

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MHP Software stack

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 Basic Architecture

MHP model consider three layers

Resources
System software
Applications

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 Basic Architecture
Resources
Hardware entities
MPEG processing, I/O devices, CPU, memory and a graphics sy
stem
System software
Middle layer isolates the application from the hardware, enabling
portability of the application
Uses the available resources in order to provide an abstract vie
w of the platform to the applications
Implementations include an application manager (“navigator”) to
control the MHP and the applications running on it
Applications
Interactive services as software running in hardware entities

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 MHP Internal Interfaces
Audio Video Remote control / keyboard/
output output Mouse input

Storage Media
+ Graphics User Interaction
Control Remote
API
Program
Media Media
Application TCP/IP
Decoder Control

Others
CA Turner MPEG-2
Service
Over
Section
Information
DSM-CC UDP/IP
control Control Filter
Demux

CA
Interaction
Turner Channel

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Network
Broadcasting Chain

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 Transport Stream Elements

An elementary stream is a
sequence of packets contai
ning video, audio or some
other type of data.
Each service is a collection
of one or more elementary
streams.

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 PSI/SI

Video, audio and other data are all interleaved

when transmitted on a single Transport Stream
(TS).
These separate sources of data are identified
with a unique packet identifier (PID).
Program Specific Information (PSI) is defined as
a part of MPEG-2 standard.
Service Information (SI) is an addition to the PSI
specification.

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 PSI

PSI defines four different tables.

Program Allocation Table (PAT)
Program Map Table (PMT)
Conditional Access Table (CAT)
Transport Stream Descriptor Table (TSDT)

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 SI

SI defines four mandatory tables.

Network Information Table (NIT)
Service Description Table (SDT)
Event Information Table (EIT)
Time and Date Table (TDT)
SI defines four optional tables.
Bouquet Association Table (BAT)
Running Status Table (RST)
Time Offset Table (TOT)
Stuffing Tables (ST)

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 DSM-CC

MHP applications, data and events are

broadcasted using a DSM-CC layout system.
The application and data are sent on an object
carousel, while events are sent as stream
events.

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DSM-CC Object Carousel Layering

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 Conditional Access System

Conditional Access System (CAS) is used to

control the access to program content.

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 Xlet - MHP Application

An MHP application is an interactive application

written by Java.
Called Xlet
Run on top of the MHP middleware
Specific lifecycle (started, stopped, paused, and resu
med)
The states changes of an Xlet are handled by the Xlet
itself. Xlets communicate with the application manager
about state changes via callback.

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 Xlet Lifecycle

Loaded – loaded but not initialized.

Paused – minimizes its usage of resource.
Active – working and providing instance.
Destroyed – released all its resource and termina
ted.

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 Basic API – Java

DVB creates a lightweight version suitable for

broadcast applications called DVB-J.
Based on a subset of Personal Java 1.2
Add several major parts, such as STB-specific
functions
UI model reflects the consumer
Changes in the core Java classes to save memory
space

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 Extension API
JavaTV API
Xlet classes and infrastructure
Service selection
SI/PSI access
DAVIC API
Basic MPEG concepts
Tuning between transport streams
MPEG-2 section filtering
Resource management
Access to CA information
HAVi API
Video/graphics integration
UI widgets for consumer systems and TV screens
Solutions for hardware restrictions related to video and graphics integration on TV screen
3 layers:
Background layer
Video layer
Graphic layer

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 MHP Application

Electronic Program Guides (EPG)

Information service
E-commerce and T-Games
Education service
E-mail and internet
…

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E-commerce and E-Games

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Education service & E-mail and internet

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 IPTV implementation of ISMP

framework
Virtual
TV Service
Station Provider

Tuner modulator card

RF

USB
STB
Wireless Internet AAA
Server
HDMI I/O
Wired cable HD
UPnP
Devices

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Main Menu

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Electric Program Guide

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Record and Schedules

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 Homework

Run a Xlet of openMHP on a linux-like OS

Install MPH platform
Record all the progress you do
Appending pictures is better

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 Homework 解說

安裝所需套件
JVM (JDK 1.4 以上版本 )
Apache ant ：方便 compile xlet
JavaTv （ Javatv 1.0 ）：提供 API 給數位電視平台
OpenMHP ：提供 PC 的 open source 的 MHP 平台
其他套件
JMF 2.1.1 : JAVA library , 用來對 java 應用程式增加
audio, video 和其它 time-based media
(5)ImageMagick 5.5.7:
注意環境變數設定

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 Reference

http://www.interactivetvweb.org/tutorials/javatv
附上 openmhp1.0.4 ：
http://140.116.82.51:8081/openmhp104_src.zip
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