Case Study

Digital Video   Click here for PDF version

Overview
A Houston based Digital Video Services company that provides robust technnology and application based services through a comprehensive production and delivery suite.

Business Need
Application services which allow clients to deliver interactive digital video across IP-enabled platforms.
The client wanted to integrate its proprietary building blocks into a complete end-to-end broadband network production, management and delivery system.
A media player which meets the end-to-end user requirements.
A multi-platform audio-video media player.
A media player which can play the multiple media formats with multiple audio-video player support.
A brand-able media player, which can take the life and color of the broadcaster.
A media player which allows multiple media player clients to run on the same user system.

The Solution
R Systems provided end-to-end solutions from the development to the distribution of the client.
Developed the multi-platform brand-able Media Player which can run on Win XP/2000/NT, MAC OS X, Red Hat Linux.
Developed the Media Player using Open source libraries, thereby reducing the development cost to the customer.
Media Player development in small components, so that the components can be just plugged and un-plugged based on the media broadcaster company requirements.
Developed a brand-able installer solution to the client.

The Benefits
Due to the new and unique multi platform media player, the client was able to increase its customer base. The broadcasting security was increased because of the new media player features which protected the broadcaster’s contents from unauthorized access. Also the new framework could co-exist with any user interface making it more efficient and flexible.

Technologies
C++
Flash 8
Actionscript
C# WebServices
Cross platform libraries: libCurl, tinyXML and tinyXPath
Windows Media SDK
Gear SDK
DirectX

 

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