S&T Player

Strategy & Technology (S&T) have utilised their unparalleled experience in MHEG-5 to deliver a range of CI Plus applications, including information services (digital teletext), Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) and Video-on-Demand (VoD). For VoD, S&T Player provides the on-screen user experience.

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 Player communicates with our back-end Vod catalogue handler: S&T Mediator. S&T Mediator is a flexible, scalable framework for accessing, processing and caching metadata. Mediator supplies data to S&T Player in a format that is highly optimised and requires very little additional processing in the TV. This approach minimises the bandwidth required for data communications and helps ensure the best possible performance for the viewer.

An optional addition to Mediator is S&T Aggregator. Aggregator provides a HTTP interface for retrieving EPG and detailed programme information, and for performing searches by criteria such as title, synopsis and genre.

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