Today, technology goes forward and we get some new possibilities in the Online TV viewing. iWave’s i.MX6 Pico-ITX board with Jelly Bean Android provides one such solution. Today we can watch online TV in the Browser that will run in the i.MX6 Pico-ITX Single Board Computer. This uses Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). RTMP was initially a proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia. It is based on TCP and was specifically designed for streaming video, audio, and data between a media server and clients (Flash player).
Currently applications like follows use this protocol:
- Online multi-player games
- Text and video chat applications
- Virtual meeting applications
- Synchronous and interactive e-learning applications (business simulation games, etc.)
In the early days of web video delivery, users had to rely on progressive delivery of video, meaning that the bits of video were delivered to your player one packet at a time “in the blind,” with no communication between the server and player. When a reasonable percentage of the file was downloaded to disk, the player would begin playing the file. However too often the player caught up with the point at which the file was being delivered, and playback halted.
As a result streaming was created—a mode through which the video is passed to the player, with increased communication and monitoring in place, and it happens in real time between the player and server. If bandwidth degrades on the player side, it signals the server and “buffers” until it can obtain a suitable amount of packets of video to resume playback.
One benefit with RTMP worth mentioning here is its ability to provide multicast support. If you run an enterprise and want to take one stream inside your corporate network and deliver it to many users without initiating a new connection for each user, RTMP is the best technology.
Using iMX6 PICO-ITX Android Jelly Bean, one can watch ‘online live iptv broadcasting’ and ‘video on demand’. As shown in the above block diagram, web browser through http requests the web server, then the web server will send the swf file to the web browser over http. Flash player then connects to the media server using RTMP. RTMP server will send the data via RTMP that will be played in the Flash Player.
If your favourite online service (IP TV) uses the RTMP protocol for broadcasting, you have a good chance of being able to watch the video stream live using iWave’s i.MX6 SBC. Its operating principle is simple: you input the address of the video server. It just connects to the server, consuming only the network traffic containing the video, and streams it to your display unit.
Online Live IP TV:
"Russia Today" is one of the IPTV broadcasting http://rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air/ we can watch this IPTV online in the Jelly Bean's Browser.
We can choose the quality either HD, medium and low.
Video On Demand:
i.MX6 Pico ITX SBC also supports RTMP for Video on demand services.
"Deutsche Welle" is one of the Video on demand service provider. We can watch this on demand video in the Android Browser. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,4756,00.html
We can watch Discovery Germany Video By clicking on that.
Finally iWave’s i.MX6 Single Board Computer is able to provide Video on demand services and Worldwide IPTV broadcasting over HDMI or LVDS display.
For further information or enquiries please write to mktg@iwavesystems.com or visit www.iwavesystems.com.
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