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VideoWeb, a German OTT service provider, launches its new B12 product line of OTT set top boxes for the international markets. The company will be showcasing its new product at IP&TV World in London.
The company’s new B12 platform offers an STB platform including internet technologies to run OTT services. B12 includes latest hardware technology and software components like HTML4/5/CE-HTML browser, QT-client, HbbTV, DLNA and an advanced OTT media player. In addition B12 supports latest Hollywood approved streaming technologies (e.g. Smooth Streaming, HLS, BitBand, MPEG DASH) and DRM solutions such as DRM10, PlayReady, HLS-DRM and Secure Media.
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"We recently announced the upcoming availability of Adobe Access (formerly Flash Access) DRM protection for native iOS applications. So what does this mean for your workflow? You can now finally reach a broad range of destination devices with a single, simple workflow, including Windows, OSX, iPad, iPhones, iPods, hundreds of Android smartphones and tablets (Android 2.2+), and televisions, including Samsung Smart TVs, TIVO and LG devices, and soon many more as part of project Primetime."
A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft defines a framework for for enabling the playback of protected media content in the Web browser. The proposal is controversial and has raised concern among some parties that are participating in the standards process.
In a discussion on the W3C HTML mailing list, critics questioned whether the proposed framework would really provide the level of security demanded by content providers. Mozilla asked for clarification from the authors about whether it would be possible to implement the proposal in an open source Web browser. Google's Ian Hickson, the WHATWG HTML specification editor, called the Encrypted Media proposal "unethical" and said that it wouldn't even fulfill the necessary technical requirements.
DRM will always have a place, but content owners should spend more time creating innovative distribution models like Netflix that are easy-to-use and priced right.
To DRM or not to DRM? That has been a key question for some years now. One of the first articles I wrote for Streaming Media was about DRM, a little way back in 2002. Not a lot has changed in a decade. It is still strapped with a negative perception, not widely adopted, and largely ineffective at all but the early-adopter and innovator end of the market
In a decade or so down the line, experts looking back likely will say that 2012 was the year cable operators and the rest of the telecommunications industry pivoted from basic “get it out there” multiscreen platforms to those that work with a far higher level of precision and efficiency.
That’s the plan, at least. What happens remains to be seen. What is clear is that the industry is poised to take several important steps beyond the “one off” catch-as-catch-can approach that has dominated to date. “The year 2011 saw most — if not all — the major service providers world-wide investigating adaptive streaming, ranging from lab investigations to highly publicized deployments,” wrote Yuval Fisher, chief technology officer of RGB Networks in response to emailed questions. “The market has matured quickly, with operators’ expectations quickly rising from the initial ‘help me just see how this works’ to ‘I need high video quality, high-availability equipment.’”
Marlin-DRM protected DASH POC : MMSys 2011 Ericsson research paper
Dynamic adaptive HTTP streaming (DASH) is a new concept for video streaming using consecutive downloads of short video segments. 3GPP has developed the basic DASH standard which is further extended by OIPF and MPEG. In all versions available to date, content protection is not properly enabled. Extensions are needed to enable important use cases like pay-per-view, license change in an ongoing video channel, and pay-per-maximum-quality.
In this publication, Frank Hartung, Sinan Kesici and Daniel Catrein have examined which extensions are needed, in order to use DASH for DRM protected content. This comprises required changes in the DASH standard, namely MPD metadata extensions, as well as changes in the used transport file formats, namely the inclusion of a ISO file format box carrying a segment key, and finally a suitable key and license structure applied to the underlying DASH concept. All those changes have been proposed and explained in the paper. With these changes and additions, which do not change the core idea of DASH, even more complex use cases like pay-per-view and pay-per-maximum-quality are possible. As a proof-of-concept, the authors have implemented the proposed changes and integrated them with a real DRM key and license management system. For the proof-of-concept, they have used Marlin DRM, but any other similar DRM would be equally usable.
READ THE PAPER HERE : http://www.hartung.fh-aachen.de/publications/ACM_MMSys2011_p277.pdf
An MPEG meeting in February will further shape the spec as it moves to general adoption. The Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) announced last week that the DASH specification has been ratified as a standards-based way to move forward with dynamically adaptive streaming over the HTTP protocol. The DASH specification was approved by 24 national bodies from across North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. MPEG-DASH, now know as ISO/IEC 23009-1, was frozen technically in August 2011, and ratified by the national bodies prior to MPEG 98 (the 98th meeting of MPEG) held in Geneva, Switzerland, which wrapped up on December 2.
The popularity of mobile devices is pushing most of online video projects to adapt their services to mobile applications (e.g., tablets or smart phones). In the context of many online video services needing video content protection (for example, to offer content libraries from the major Western movie studios), implementing of DRM features in a mobile video player is becoming a critical task. As always, you have a set of solutions and platforms to choose from. Recently, we wrote of DRM features in iOS. Now, it’s high time to talk about Android DRM.
Being long interested in HTML5 (and all that other stuff) I sometimes think about it's future, especially regarding it's commercial use. Once, I've got a particular evil vision about possible (video) DRM implementation using HTML5 goodness. We can argue whether the whole DRM concept is a good or a bad thing. It is though inevitable for commercial content to come to the HTML5 world. Here, probably, should I rant about music/movies industry being stagnant, old-fashioned and closed-minded. I won't, there's plenty of examples in the aforementioned Wikipedia article. Folks are really vocal. In this (and probably one future) post I'm going to loudly think about the technical side of this problem.
The move towards MPEG DASH and the fragmented MP4 (fMP4) common file format may finally offer DVD-like interoperability for web video. Since the early days of online video, various battles have been waged among competing video codecs and formats, but those battles were merely indicative of the larger struggle between those who support a common file format for all online video delivery and those who support proprietary formats. The most recent push for a common file format is coming from proponents of MPEG DASH, and if the standing-room-only crowd at an MPEG DASH panel at Streaming Media West earlier this month is any indication, its time may have come. UltraViolet, which uses both a common file format and common encryption, is supported by six major studios and the seventy-member Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) as a way to deliver premium content such as movies on both physical media (discs) and online (digital downloads). As described in detail in a "What Is...?" article by Jan Ozer, MPEG DASH is a way to standardize manifests (called Media Presentation Descriptions or MPDs) that is moving through the ISO ratification process piece by piece.
Pritham Shetty : "We are focusing our efforts on the experiences our customers are actively building, and reducing our focus on areas that are not widely used but require significant resources. This enables us to focus on unsolved problems, like standardized dynamic streaming and DRM for HTML5, that are holding back reach and monetization across devices." This is what Adobe will support: 1. Desktop: Flash Player as a browser plug-in 2. Mobile Browser: Flash Player 11.1 will be available on Android and Blackberry. Adobe is committed to creating great tools and technologies for HTML5 experiences and server-side technologies to deliver HTML5 video (Ex. FMS 4.5 streaming to iOS). 3. Mobile Apps: Flash based apps packaged with AIR which can be distributed via all of the major app stores, including Apple’s App Store, Android Market, Amazon’s App Store etc. 4. TV apps: Ability to embed Flash video in native HTML apps as well as Flash based apps packaged with AIR This is what Adobe will not support: 1. Future versions of Flash as a mobile browser plug-in. Increasingly, mobile OS manufacturers are excluding browser plug-ins, limiting our ability to use Flash to solve mobile browser fragmentation 2. Browsing on a TV. We believe the apps, not browsing to a website, will be the primary way viewers access premium video and games on TVs and peripherals. Specifically, we will not ensure that, for example, 10 year-old websites will render flawlessly on TVs because most people are not browsing 10 year-old websites on TVs.
Development of professional video applications for iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) is often associated with implementing reliable tools for content protection. Otherwise, the copyright holders would scarcely entrust their professional video content to your application. In this post, we will brief you on the technicalities of implementing DRM for video services run by iOS devices.
AuthenTec and Harmonic today announced the joint development of DRM solutions that work seamlessly with Harmonic video encoders to enable streaming of PlayReady multimedia content on Apple and Android mobile phones and tablets. The combined hardware and software solution allows content providers and distributors to protect and deliver live streaming and on-demand video content directly to mobile device users.
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Ligada iSuite consists of a highly automated test harness and test suite covering HbbTV, OIPF, DRM and DASH adaptive streaming. The company is engaging with a number of hybrid platform operators to provide interoperability, functional and security tests.
Digital TV Labs can offer existing extensive HbbTV 1.1 and 1.5 test suites including DASH adaptive streaming, as well as specific operator test case authoring, allowing users to build their own test suites. The company offers an outsourced test service in the UK and Hong Kong for receiver manufacturers, and in addition provides test servers covering prevalent DRM systems.
Product page : http://www.digitaltv-labs.com/products/consumer_electronics/details/hbbtv
Recognizing the growing demand for a standards-based streaming technology for Over the top (OTT) content delivery, Intertrust today announced a new version of its Wasabi Marlin Client SDK that supports MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP). [...]
Intertrust’s Wasabi Marlin Client SDK v.1.3, available immediately, is a complete Software Development Kit (SDK) for developing media applications based on the Marlin DRM standard. Wasabi allows quick and efficient deployments based on Marlin DRM on desktop (PC and Mac), mobile (iOS and Android), and embedded systems (set top box and connected TV), with support for MPEG DASH and Common Encryption on all those platforms.
Wasabi Marlin Client SDK product page : http://www.intertrust.com/solutions/wasabi
This proposal extends HTMLMediaElement to enable playback of protected content. The proposed API supports use cases ranging from simple clear key decryption to high value video (given an appropriate user agent implementation). License/key exchange is controlled by the application, facilitating the development of robust playback applications supporting a range of content decryption and protection technologies. No "DRM" is added to the HTML5 specification, and only simple clear key decryption is required as a common baseline.
Input media formats: - Smooth (VoD & Live). An adaptive HTTP format specified by Microsoft. Used by Microsoft in Silverlight, but is an open format that third party clients also support. - Apple HLS (VoD & Live). An adaptive HTTP format specified by Apple. Used by Apple in iPhone/iPad, but is – like Smooth – an open format. - MPEG DASH (VoD). A new adaptive format specified by ISO. Wide and promising industry backing. We support both MPEG-2 TS and MP4-based (ISOBFF) profiles.
Input DRM formats:
- Microsoft PlayReady DRM
Video service providers looking to launch multi-network, multi-screen services face challenges in assessing the implications of the content security requirements that major content owners will include in content licensing deals.
Whether you are a traditional managed-network operator or an OTT video startup, you need to know what protection technologies the studios will expect as you plan new offerings.
Verimatrix teamed with Bill Rosenblatt of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies to develop the most comprehensive guide available today on how TV Everywhere-type services are affecting traditional licensing and security rules.
Based on extensive research with major Hollywood studios and other content owners, we have found that content protection requirements contain many subtleties and are in states of flux regarding various criteria. Our examination of content owners' policies reveals important benchmarks and trends in protection requirements.
A good overview of the major features implemented in 2011 inside USP repackaging software : - PlayReady encryption key exchange with BuyDRM's KeyOS Smooth DRM Service - Verimatrix iOS key exchange - support for MPEG DASH draft specification - Proxy support (NFS, S3, Windows Azure)
... and what's coming in 2012 : - Selective scrambling - Flash access DRM - Full MPEG-DASH support - support for UltraViolet's Common File Format, using Common Encryption
ViXS Systems Inc. announced today the support of digital rights management solution (DRM) from the company Widevine on its XCode products. The XCod multimedia processors from ViXS integrate an advanced security architecture allowing the porting of digital rights management (DRM) from companies such as Widevine, a global leader for securing high quality audio and video delivery. The XCod multimedia processor SoCs uniquely combine state-of-the-art ViXS’ patented transcoding and transcrypting technologies providing the ability for place shifting and multiscreen streaming.
Over the last few years, the multimedia technology has been growing exponentially. Twenty years ago, the analog over-the-air broadcast was the top experience available. Now, online video services make an increasing impact on the TV industry. You will find useful DRM technologies overview in this article (I hope). It was published in the latest issue of Russian magazine Telesputnik. //Great DRM introduction and technical walkthrough!
Let's say you (or someone else) have resolved all previously mentioned issues. You've got yourself a half-working DRM implementation for your HTML5 video player. Now, where to start?
Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn’t intend to develop new mobile ports of its Flash player browser plugin, though existing implementations will continue to be maintained. Adobe’s withdrawal from the mobile browser space means that HTML5 is now the path forward for developers who want to reach everyone and deliver an experience that works across all screens. The strengths and limitations of existing standards will now have significant implications for content creators who want to deliver video content on the post-flash Web. Author Ryan Paul goes through : - Strengths and weaknesses of HTML5 video - Can DRM be made to play nice with open standards? - Netflix stands behind DASH - DASH and DRM - What next?
BuyDRM announced today that the company will be conducting previews of the KeyOS: Cloud Edition service running on Amazon Web Services at Streaming Media West 2011. This preview will provide potential customers with a chance to see the technology in action and make product feature recommendations and pricing requests before the service goes live. BuyDRM has developed a dynamic prototype of the KeyOS: Cloud Edition encryption service running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) which uses the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger an encryption session of content stored in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). By deploying this service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, BuyDRM can support large scale media and entertainment deployments which use the full spectrum of the AWS offering including the Amazon CloudFront streaming and download features.
VCAS for Internet TV provides a complete digital TV security solution for OTT services over networks implementing the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol. Featuring multi-format support, VCAS for Internet TV secures OTT services over multiple network types to a wide range of screen formats, including both broadcast (linear) and video-on-demand (VoD) delivery. The Verimatrix ViewRight Web client family is a robust package of portable security applications that provide authentication and fine grain entitlement management for a variety of device categories, including PC/Macs, mobile handsets, tablets, set-top boxes and connected TVs. Key enhancements addressed in the full VCAS for Internet TV solution include: Closed Captioning -- Support for multilingual programming and service delivery that extends the value of encoded HLS assets across a wider geographic footprint. Dynamic copy control parameters -- Enforcing output control parameters to prohibit unauthorized copying of streamed content. On-screen display (OSD) fingerprinting -- Forcing periodic display of a device identifier overlay to deter unauthorized retransmission of streamed content. Local file cache and playback options -- Support for locally downloaded content in secure HLS format to extend range of service delivery options. Extended client instrumentation -- More detailed reporting of client device status and network performance to enhance overall deployment management.
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