Products
S&T provides a wide variety of products to facilitate the creation, playout and reception of interactive television content. The product suite is constantly updated with new developments launched on a regular basis. We are also responsive to specific customer requirements and work with our clients to ensure best-fit.
Headend
TSBroadcaster
TSBroadcaster enables a broadcaster or network operator to generate content and signalling for interactive television applications. It conforms to OCAP, ETV, DVB-MHP, MHEG and HbbTV standards and has been widely deployed on a global basis. TSPlayer is integrated with TSBroadcaster. It provides Object Carousel playout, Transport Stream injection with support for both ASI and GigE output.
TSConsole
TSConsole provides high-level monitoring and control of TSBroadcasters deployed in a production environment. It offers a number of facilities to reduce workload and improve monitoring performance.
TSMonitor
TSMonitor watches your broadcast interactive applications and subtitles/closed captions to make sure they are playing out correctly. It detects inaccuracies in output and timing and flags them immediately on a high-level overview page. An operator can then drill-down quickly to more detailed detailed diagnostics. TSMonitor effectively eliminates the need for numerous set-top boxes, monitor screens and human testers. Receivers are virtualised within the user interface, complete with all necessary functionality.
TSProcessor
Our ETV TSProcessor provides a range of functions for controlling ETV application content within a transport stream. Incoming transport streams can be analysed and ETV applications inspected, validated, ammended or removed to ensure they meet your standards. This gives you greater control over your broadcast content and prevents unwanted additions to your stream.
S&T Mediator
S&T Mediator provides integration with back-office video catalogues. It is a flexible, scalable framework for accessing, processing and caching VoD Data. Mediator supplies data to S&T Player in a format that is highly optimised and requires very little processing within the TV. This approach minimises the bandwidth required for data communications and helps ensure the best possible performance for the viewer.
Receiver Products
RedKey™
RedKey™ is S&T’s software receiver engine, adding MHEG-5 functionality to digital television receivers. RedKey is cost-effective and can be used in just about any digital television receiver, be that set-top boxes or integrated digital televisions.
Applications
S&T Player
S&T Player is a highly flexible, data-driven MHEG-5 application that runs within the TVs CI Plus Browser. It allows subscribers to navigate the full VoD catalogue – including catch-up TV – and select individual titles for viewing using the TVs remote control. Video is delivered via DVB-C or IP, and once playback has started, S&T Player offers viewers full control (e.g. pause, stop, skip forwards/backwards, etc.).
S&T Guide
S&T Guide provides a customisable, configurable and re-skinnable product for broadcasters and operators.
MHEG Presenter
MHEG Presenter allows broadcasters to create complex MHEG applications using graphical layout tools and structured content data without writing any MHEG code.
MHEG Controller
A complete solution for launching and managing MHEG applications or multiple applications. Find out more about MHEG Controller.
EWBS
MHEG-5 offers an EWBS implementation using an established standard. The advantages of this approach are many and include MHEG's low technology cost, no IPR license fees, and a short time to market as MHEG is already included in most manufacturers' receiver designs.
Tools
MHEG Developer
MHEG Developer offers MHEG applications authors and developers the features commonly found in professional integrated development environments (IDE).
MHEG Player
MHEG Desktop Player is an MHEG-5 development tool for executing ASN.1 encoded MHEG-5 applications on a desktop PC, simulating a digital television receiver.
I-Framer 3
I-Framer is designed to allow the effortless creation of i-frames, which can then be used as static images in interactive applications.
Test and Streaming
SoftOC
SoftOC is a set of applications targeted at development and broadcast engineers for encoding and decoding section-based data in MPEG transport streams. It is "programmed" via XML files that can be edited with common text editors. SoftOC can be operated either from a simple UI or at a lower lever from the command line or shell scripts/batch files.