UDRM Overview
SmartLabs UDRM (SmartLabs Universal DRM) is a one-size-fits-all solution for DRM protection of content in IPTV and OTT networks. SmartLabs Universal DRM consists of the following components: Libraries include CDM (Content Decryption Module) Modular DRM, PlayReady and Apple FairPlay developed by Google Widevine, Microsoft and Apple. Other CDMs can be added. The diagram below illustrates […]
SmartCARE UI
SmartCARE user interface is a dashboard that makes it possible to:
How does it Work?
SmartCARE system has a client-server architecture. The basic analytics data are collected from client devices and live streaming servers and forwarded to the SmartCARE server for processing. Based on the incoming data, the server controls the quality of the provided services and identifies errors that can cause complete image loss, its distortion, rippling or freezing. […]
SmartCARE Introduction
Download PDF The quality of video content delivery services directly depends on the quality of hardware performance on the operator’s side and the quality of the access network on the subscriber’s side. Network-level problems and problems on the operator’s platform affect the service quality and can lead to image freezing, reduced image quality, frame loss, […]
Load Balancing and Failover
Scaling and Fault Tolerance within a Single Site Can be implemented by: Geographically Distributed Structure (CDN) SmartMEDIA Redirector allows you to implement a geographically distributed solution for the media content delivery. Functionality Balancing Criteria
Multicast Content Protection
SmartMEDIA allows you to encrypt MPEG-TS content in real time according to the ISO/IEC 23001-9 (Common encryption of MPEG-2 transport streams) standard. The SmartCETS service allows you to encrypt multiple multicast streams simultaneously; the cets utility can be used to encrypt a single stream or MPEG2-TS files. After receiving the list of input multicast streams, SmartCETS/cets requests […]
Dual Encryption Solution
HLS/FairPlay + DASH/Widevine If your subscribers encounter unstable playback on iOS devices, then you have the only way — to integrate the native iOS player into your client apps. Such a solution involves two challenges: We have a solution! The SmartLabs platform provides you two options: To avoid using extra storage, we recommend a combination […]
Transcoding
SmartMEDIA Transcoder The SmartLabs SmartMEDIA Transcoder product allows you to perform transcoding of live input streams to multi profile adaptive bitrate, DASH or HLS, streams for OTT delivery. This software product runs on standard off-the-shelf hardware with Intel CPUs with QSV support or NVIDIA GPUs with NVENC support. The solution architecture deploys two components of the SmartMEDIA […]
nDVR Services
Unicast LiveTV and “network video recorder” (nDRV) services mean the retransmission of digital streams (for example, TV channels) with individual (unicast) delivery to subscriber devices over IP-networks. Examples of nDVR services include such services as TimeShifted TV (TSTV), PauseLive, or a network personal video recorder (nPVR). To implement these services, streams have to be recorded […]
VoD Services
Using the SmartMEDIA media server, IPTV/OTT service providers can develop a wide range of services for their subscribers, the entire list of which can be generalized to the following services: LiveTV (multicast), VoD and nDVR. VoD Services VoD (Video on Demand) is a set of services for targeted video content delivery (for example, movies, serials, […]