Smart TV applications become more and more popular around the globe. In some parts of the world, the number of people watching video on smart TVs significantly exceeds the number of people, who use mobile phones and tablets for video streaming due to expensive data tariffs, limitations of 3G and LTE connection bandwidth, and data caps.
Mautilus is the biggest design and development house for smart TV applications in Europe with a track of applications installed on all continents (except Antarctica:). We cooperate closely with all major TV, set-top box and game console manufacturers in order to produce the best quality applications for every platform our customers request.
Our applications are based on our open source and BSD licensed cross-platform Mautilus Smart TV SDK™. Using the SDK, the applications are developed only once, and thanks to drivers dynamically loaded from the SDK, they can be installed and run on any TV platform.
Applications based on Mautilus Smart TV SDK™ share the same source code across all platforms. That approach enormously reduces the effort required for the application development and simplifies the long-term maintenance.
http://smarttv.mautilus.com/SDK
The SDK is delivered with two examples, which are showing use of the virtual keyboard, player and network communication. They are located in the examples subfolder. Both examples include packages, which could be immediatelly installed on Samsung and LG televisions.
Version: 2.1.292
Release notes 2.1.292:
- Samsung Tizen 2016 support added
- LG webOS 3.x support added
- Enhancement of SONY PlayStation 3/4 drivers
- Hisense Vidaa 2015 and 2016 TV support added
- Improved SDK Documentation (How to use DRM, VAST module guide)
- The support for 4K playback on Samsung Tizen TVs added
- Method Player.play() improved and extended
- DRM support improved and simplified (method Player.setDRM())
- Video player improvements and fixes
- The VAST standard is supported in following scope:
- VAST 3.0 is supported, see specification
InLine,Wrapper(VAST servers could be chained) andErrorelements are supportedLinearad types are supportedDurationandMediaFileselements are supported forLinearads- Only MPEG-4 progressive download ad video playback is supported
- Skippable ads are supported (see chapter 2.3.2 of the VAST 3.0 specification)
Impressionelement is supported- Tracking of following events is supported:
start,firstQuartile,midpoint,thirdQuartile,complete,skip - Support for tracking of multiple events and impressions
Release notes 2.0.230:
- Instant On feature on Samsung Tizen
- Improved help generation
- New example (3PlayersDemo)
- Added support for LG NetCast Simple SmartTV 2016
- Added support for LG webOS 3.x (2016)
Release notes 2.0.220:
- Support for Panasonic Firefox devices (2015 models) added
- Support for Arris (KreaTV) added
- Support for MPEG-DASH on Samsung Orsay models enhanced
- Support for HbbTV 1.1.1 and 1.2.1 enhanced
Release notes 2.0.188:
- Tizen support added
- Widevine support in webOS Player added
- PlayReady support in Tizen player added
- Small improvements in developer console
- Keyboard handling improvements
- Keyboard support secondary button for special characters
- Partial HbbTV support
- Bug-fixing
- RSS reader example optimized and new PlayerKeyboardInfo example added
Currently supported platforms:
- Samsung SmartTV/Orsay (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Samsung Tizen (2015, 2016)
- LG NetCast 3.x+ (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- LG Simple SmartTV 2016
- LG webOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Philips NetTV 4.x+ (2013, 2014, 2015)
- Sony BRAVIA (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Panasonic VIERA (2012, 2013, 2014)
- Panasonic Firefox (2015)
- VESTEL
- DuneHD
- Arris/KreaTV (limited support)
- HbbTV 1.1.1 and 1.2.1
- Hisense Vidaa (2015, 2016)
- VOYO (CEE countries)
- icflix (MENA)
- ShowMax (70+ countries)
- FILMIN (Spain, Mexico, Portugal)
- Virtual Radio OE3 (Austria)
- ChannelLive (USA)
- Stream.cz (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- HBO.GO (Europe)
- Telefonica O2TV (Czech Republic)
- DittoTV (India)
- Mobily mView (Saudi Arabia)
- Sledovani.tv (Czech Republic, Slovakia) link
- RFE/RL (Many countries) link
- 4K Telekom (Slovakia) link
- Markíza HbbTV (Slovakia) link
- HbbTV advertisements - Hyundai, Vodafone (Czech Republic) link
- Frekvence 1 / Lagardère (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- Smart TV/HbbTV white-label
- and many more ...
SDK is licensed under New BSD License:
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