Home Media Server

Customers demand to enjoy personal digital videos and photos , to listen to digital music stored on PCs and hard drives on their TV and Hifi.

Service and telecom operators wish to keep control of the user experience and to deliver value added services, therefore they offer Home Media Sharing solutions aligned with their marketing and product strategy.

 

Media Server for Home Network

  • Media Server stack able to deliver service through following protocols : DLNA , Upnp or Http only for legacy STB & TV.
  • Media Center user Interface for displaying and consuming media over various devices TV, PC, mobiles..
  • Media manager for setting parameters and media base with generic or personal settings

 

Key points

  • Robustness: Since 2003, deployed over a million units, SesamTV’s software is supported over a large panel of P.C and O.S configurations.
  • Fully customizable :The operator controls content, user experience, the feature set and can bring optimal interworking with its connected devices (TV, STB, gateway..) in order to ensure QoS and to limit support costs.
  • Quality of service and experience: SelfCare tools and integration with Operator's connected devices (TV, STB, gateway..) ensure QoS, QoE and limit support costs.
  • No open source code: brings our customer security about intellectual property , support and avoiding source code redistribution.
  • SLA & Roadmap: Service Level Agreement and product roadmap can be proposed and shared.
  • Optimized user experience: powerful mediabase and rich-media user experience for browsing and playing hundreds of thousands of media.
  • Privacy management: share/unshare per media item or per folder/user.
  • Openess: APIs on top of the Media Server engine allowing third party to design and plug in their own user experience.
  • OS management and support: XP, Vista, 7 and Mac (upcoming).
 

TV Everywhere

Operators are deploying TV services over PCs to extend the richness of their offer and to deploy multiroom TV and PVR to their customers’ base.

Operators can leverage the customer’s PC as a popular STB, thus use the existing TV back-end (CAS/DRM system, streamers…) to bring the full TV service portal to a very large number of displays at marginal cost.

An ideal complement to the STB in the home, the "TV Everywhere" solution contributes to bring the new generation of gateways and STB to enableTV and PVR redistribution in the house.

"TV Everywhere"solution is running on a Personal Computer and is composed of

  • A TV portal providing user experience for TV, VoD, PVR, EPG and other services
  • A Middleware on personal computers providing the TV media engine with all back end servers, DVB / IP  management and communication protocols

Use Cases

  • Costless and simple multiroom TV service in the home. On all P.C with the same U.I, services and TV quality than the STB
  • "Follow me" TV service when out of home and connected to the Internet
  • Serve the growing segment of households with no TV set, such students, youths, small flats,..), using their PC as their primary screen
  • Home media redistribution: take out content of the STB to P.Cs, so each member of the familly can watch their recorded content
  • As a marketing tool, expose all your customer base to your TV offering in a try & buy mode, at low cost by donwloading a PC software

User Interface

  • 10 and 3 foot user experience
  • Fully customizable
  • Browser based and Convergent UI : Same user experience over TV,STB, phones, tablets using Flash/HTML5
  • Plugin in browser for a Web TV channel and OTT streaming
  • Desktop application on a PC, for an always-on TV service
  • U.I Business logic and middleware APIs for:  Zapping, viewing, Time shifting, PVR, VoD , EPG, Settings, ...

Middleware

  • APIs to plug proprietary user experience application
  • DVB , IP Multicast and Web TV stream manager
  • SD and HD capable, PVR, Time-Shifting, EPG,..
  • CAS or DRM handling with secure core TV player for premium content
  • Various streaming protocol (http, RTP, RTSP..) and formats support (MPEG2, H264, WMA, FLV, ..)
  • TV Back-end server API (channel lineup, EPG, VoD, Metadata servers, provisioning & billing systems,..)
  • OS management and support XP, Vista, 7 and Mac (upcoming)
 

SesamTV Studio

SesamTV Studio is a product dedicated to customers wishing to have autonomy in designing their service user interface.

SesamTV Studio is made of a shell analyzer and an XML-based user interface markup language, which will describe the UI of SesamTV applications.

Three customization levels are available for the SesamTV Studio user.

Basic level

  • used for simple template customization. It is used to set up the public properties of each user interface components like the color, size, positions, designs,..
  • doesn’t allow to change the components layout or the page sequence.>

Advanced level

  • used for “deeper” customization. It is used to modify the page sequence or animation, the object layout …

Elite level

  • used for template creation or modification

The basic and advanced levels are used to customize templates defined in the elite level.
The elite level is fixed by SesamTV once the “templates” are validated by the customer.

SesamTV Studio is extendable; developers can extends the SDK and load dynamic SWF files which expose a set of components that can be used at runtime in SesamTV studio.

The Studio also supports dynamic fonts loading which can be used on the Label Component of the SDK or any other component that display a text.

 

SesamTV Media Center (pro solution)

SesamTV Media Center is the combination of the Home Media Server and the TV player on PC.

 

SesamTV Media Center offer a converged user experience and service for :

 

  • all media services : TV, VoD, Video, Audio, Photo, Web content
  • over all devices : TV, STB, PCs, mobile devices
  • from all networks : Web, IP Multicast, DVB, Home LAN

 

SesamTV brings its own middleware on Personal Computers and relies on the embedded middleware shipped with the STB, TV, Mobile, Tablets...

The user interface which handle the business logic and user experience is cross platform and can be integrated with embedded middlewares.

Customers of SesamTV Media Center see the following benefit.

  • One software package to deploy in the house for home media sharing and multi-room TV over PC, thus lowering deployment costs, support costs and raising value and usage for those services.
  • Convergent user interface and services over TV, PC and other connected devices as Smartphone and tablets .