Delivering Pay TV Content

throughout the Connected Home

Amol Bhagwat
Vice President & Vice-Chair, DLNA Board of Directors
Principal Architect, Video Application Technologies, CableLabs
DLNA VidiPathTM
Pay TV Content throughout the connected home

Laptop  
Tablet  
Smart  TV  

Home  network:  
•  Wi-­‐Fi  
•  Ethernet  
•  MoCA  
•  HomePlug  AV  
•  HD-­‐PLC    
•  HPNA    
•  Wi-­‐Fi  Direct  
Service Provider
Gateway or Set Top Box Game  Console  

Blu-­‐Ray  Player  
Smart  Phone  
VidiPath Hybrid In-home + Cloud
Scenario
Cloud
HTML5 RUI/
Server
2. HTML5 RUI Guide (& content)

1. Device and Service Discovery

Home  
Network  
DLNA VidiPath TV
VidiPath STB/
Gateway
3. Linear, On-Demand, DVR
Content
Pay TV Content Delivery over Home Networks
Requirements
•  Application Framework
–  Consistent user interface across all devices
–  Video playback within UI pages
–  Supports regulatory and contractual services (EAS, Closed Caption,
Secondary Audio, Ad-insertion
–  Rapid application development; faster upgrade cycle
–  Serve applications from service provider network (cloud) or within home
•  Content Protection
•  Media Formats
•  Network Qualify of Service
•  Device Diagnostics & Management
•  Supports Energy Save Operations
•  Authentication
Key VidiPath Features
•  HTML5 Application model
•  All app APIs based on W3C, IETF & related Web standards
•  HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, CORS, XHR, WebGL, …
•  No proprietary application APIs
•  User agent requirements
•  HTTP Adaptive Delivery (MPEG-DASH)
•  MPEG-2 and AVC Video in MPEG-2 TS and MP4 containers
•  3D Media Formats (conditionally mandatory for 3D devices)
•  DTCP-IP Link Protection
•  Priority-based Quality of Service
•  Diagnostics (UPnP Device Management & IEEE P1905.1)
•  Networked Devices Power Save (UPnP Low Power)
•  Authentication of DLNA Certification (using DTCP-IP keys)
DLNA Cloud Guidelines
•  Support DRM protected, cloud content delivery to
standards-based HTML5 Web Clients
•  Extend DLNA HTML5 RUI Guidelines with 3 W3C Specs:
•  EME
•  MSE
•  Web Crypto
•  Guidelines have completed approval process
•  Publication expected in November 2014
DLNA VidiPath Status
•  Specifications published in March 2014
–  Freely, publicly available at
http://www.dlna.org/dlna-for-industry/guidelines
•  Certification Program Launched
–  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/
20140910006139/en/DLNA-Launches-VidiPath-
Certification-Program-Retail-
Products#.VBdyUUJoRDI
 Timeline 2014

March     September       December    

NOW    
CerIficaIon   CerIfied  
VidiPath   Building  and    Program   Products  
Guidelines   tesIng     launch   expected  in  the  
public  release   products  
Market  
CableLabs’ VidiPath Client & Server
Open Source Reference Software
Web pages/Applications
DMP/DMR/ QT  Browser   CVP-­‐2  
LPC   DIAGE   XDMR   Ext   Components  
dLeyna/Rygel WebKit DLNA Ext Frameworks  
gstreamer              MPEG-­‐DASH   Auth  
gUPnP   gStreamer   Client  
DLNA  Ext  
plugin   Pla6orm  
DTCP-­‐IP   2D/3D  
OpenSSL  Ext  
Library   Codecs  

Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) OS    

Open  Source  Components    
Developed   PC Others Hardware  
Open  Source  Components  
Commercial  Components   VidiPath  Open  Source  Stack  

Available  at:  hDp://html5.cablelabs.com/dlna-­‐cvp-­‐2/index.html    

 Amol A. Bhagwat
Vice President & Vice Chair, DLNA Board of Directors
Principal Architect, Video Application Technologies, CableLabs
a.bhagwat@cablelabs.com
303-661-3333
From 2011 Web & TV Workshop keynote:

 
 

www.w3.org/2011/09/webtv/slides/w3c_tv_0911_keynote_comcast_sree_r3.pptx.pdf  
Another#wellVtrod#path,#rather#than#buildVyourVownVfromVscratch,#is#EmbraceVandV
  Extend.##UlCmately,#we#feel#this#is#a#tempCng,#but#flawed#strategy.##Our#goal#is#NOT#
lockVin,#but#healthy#ecoVsystem#of#content,#media,#and#interacCvity#producCon.#
Comcast efforts
•  HTML5 as defined by W3C
•  Avoid non-standard Web APIs
•  CEA-2014 in first DLNA RUI, but not in Vidipath HTML5 RUI
•  HTML5 efforts
•  Web content (xfinity.tv, nbc.com, hulu.com, …)
•  DLNA Vidipath
•  Reference Design Kit (RDK) open source STB software
includes HTML5 (rdkcentral.com)