UniSoft offers a set of tools suitable for development, authoring
and testing of ETV, OCAP and MHP applications.
These products are sumamrised below.
Headend and broadcast tools are also available.
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S&T's TSDeveloper
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Provides a multi-user environment for developing and testing iTV
applications. It creates and plays out MPEG-2 transport streams containing
multiple services and applications. The standard configuration supports
bound ETV and OCAP applications. Other configurations are available depending
on your requirements.
TSDeveloper is specific configuration of
S&T's TSBroadcaster
which has four QAM modulated RF outputs, so it can be connected
directly to a number of set-top-boxes without the need of a modulator.
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S&T's TSBroadcaster
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Is a higher-end development environment for ETV, OCAP and MHP
applications which is also suitable for live deployment.
TSBroadcaster provides complete control over creation of entire
transport streams, application signaling, including generation of
SI data and multiple object or data carousels. For the OCAP version,
full out-of-band transmission of XAITs, CVTs and object carousels,
including DSG delivery, is provided.
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ETV CoDF Application Inserter
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The ETV CoDF Application Inserter combines an ETV application defined
in a CoDF file with a source transport stream file to produce an output
transport stream file containing the application. Tyically this tool
is used to generate static ETV advertisements or VOD sessions.
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XAV
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Application Validator for OCAP, ETV, ACAP, MHP and JSR-242 (OnRamp).
XAV provides a detailed analysis of iTV applications
detecting interoperability, efficiency, security and validity problems.
A detailed report is provided which assists correction of the identified
issues. XAV is particularly suitable as an OCAP application conformance
testing tool.
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S&T's SoftOC
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Generates MPEG transport streams containing DSM-CC
object carousels. SoftOC provides control and creation of all aspects of the
Transport Stream including SI, object carousels
and MHP or OCAP signaling. Typically used for testing receivers.
SoftOC is programmed using XML input.
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S&T's TSPlayer
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An MPEG play-out system based on 1 RU Linux server,
provided with a quad-port ASI card, an integrated software multiplexer,
dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and TSPlayer server software.
TSPlayer provides a convenient host for SoftOC. The ASI card is provided by
VideoPropulsion, Inc.
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