Re: egBox - a prototype HTML5 based set top box

Olivier,
do you think your colleagues could provide, out of this experience, and
indication of "what could be standardized" and even some practical
suggestions for this group to discuss and move forward? I suspect there are
several commonalities with what we are discussing in the Media API TF.




On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Olivier Thereaux <Olivier.Thereaux@bbc.co.uk
> wrote:

> Hi Silvia, hi all,
>
> On 17 Jul 2013, at 12:16, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That's really interesting - all done with open source technologies.
> > I'm curious if you have a demo somewhere or at least a demo video of it?
>
> Our demo is a physical box - with some software which we hope to open at
> some point soon.
>
> We do however have a video which was made as part of the "Future Internet"
> European Project:
> http://www.fi-content.eu/?page_id=8
>
> The “interactive video” in the above page is a little hard to navigate, so
> here's a direct link to the relevant segment that shows egBox in use
> (00:00:10 to 00:00:54):
>
> http://193.174.152.29/nlv2/content/ficontent/mov/2_Content_Area_B_Full_1280x720.mp4
>
> > What did you think about the quality of experience?
>
> IIRC the hardest part was to get fluid and responsive display of video
> from a broadcast tuner as a primary "layer" of the interface. The rest, the
> actual HTML5 bit, was fairly easy to work on and control. We've mostly used
> it to prototype user experience around TV authentication. There's a
> write-up about that on our blog:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013/03/authentication-for-connected-tvs
>
> I'm sure we'll have more to share soon - including code - as we start a
> second phase of work on the project.
>
> Olivier
>
>
>
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