YouView Core Technical Specification

For Launch Version 1.0 14 April 2011

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Table of Contents
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1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4

This Document
Introduction Relationship to DTG D-Book 7 Implementation Typographical conventions

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Chapter I
1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 3.10.

Overview
Chapter Summary Consumer Device Operating Environment Summary of Core Requirements Consumer Device Hardware Consumer Device Software Consumer Device Software Management Consumer Device Storage Management Consumer Device UI Model Content Delivery and Content Protection UI Management and Presentation Engine Integration Diagnostics and Reporting Platform metadata Accessibility

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Chapter II
1. 1.1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 3.10. 3.11. 3.12. 3.13. 3.14.

Consumer Device Platform

Chapter Summary Chapter audience Device Platform Summary Core Consumer Device Platform Silicon Connectivity Internal storage Power management Noise constraints Operating system Standard libraries DirectFB requirements Graphics layers HTTP client library (libcurl) A/V handling Device software upgrade Security Automatic reset

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3.15. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4.

Front panel buttons, indicators and displays User Input Device User input functions Additional control codes Physical requirements Keyboard input

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Chapter III
1. 1.1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. 5. 5.1.

Consumer Device Software Architecture

Chapter Summary Chapter audience Introduction Software Architecture Overview Logical Architecture Design goals Device Operating System Message Bus Message Bus Overview Supported Message Buses Message types Error handing D-Bus security Message Bus Usage Message Bus C++ Bindings D-Bus Specification Device Operation Time

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Chapter IV
1. 1.1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 2.7. 3. 3.1. 4.

Consumer Device IP Networking

Chapter Summary Chapter audience IP Network Stack Core specification IPv4 configuration Multicast IPv6 Performance HTTP profile Proxy support IP Resource Management Introduction Back-off Mechanism for HTTP Requests

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Chapter V
1. 1.1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4.

Consumer Device UI Model

Chapter Summary Chapter audience Device UI Model Overview UI Model Implementation Introduction Setup and Settings Platform Main UI Content Provider applications

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Chapter VI
1. 1.1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 3. 4. 4.1. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5.

Consumer Device Software Management

Chapter Summary Audience Software and Configuration Management Overview Core Device Software Platform Software Device configuration Initial device state Update in the field Automatically checking for updates Core Device Software update Overview Checking for an updated version of Core Device Software Acquiring an updated version Core Device Software Verifying an updated version of Core Device Software Installing an updated version of Core Device Software Activating an updated version of Core Device Software Platform Software update Overview Checking for an updated version of Platform Software Acquiring an updated Platform Software Image Verifying an updated Platform Software Image Installing an updated version of Platform Software Activating an installed version of Platform Software Platform Software packaging format Device configuration Overview Acquiring updated configuration Verifying updated configuration Installing updated configuration Configuration packaging format

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Chapter VII
1. 1.1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 5.

Consumer Device Storage Management

Chapter Summary Audience Storage Types Writeable storage types Read-only software images Storage of permanent data Start-up after storage partitions have been cleared Replacement of integrated storage Backup copies of Core Device Software Factory Reset function Initiating the Factory Reset function Scope of the Factory Reset function Effect of the Factory Reset function Clear Private Data function Initiating the Clear Private Data function Scope of the Clear Private Data function Effect of the Clear Private Data function Effect of Factory Reset and Clear Private Data

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Chapter VIII
1. 1.1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3.

Broadcast Content Delivery

Chapter Summary Audience D-Book Compatibility MHEG-5 Extensions Launching IP-delivered applications from broadcast services Receiving launch parameters set from non-MHEG applications Feature discovery

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Chapter IX
1. 1.1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 4. 4.1.

IP Content Delivery
Chapter Summary Chapter audience Streaming Protocols Introduction HTTP progressive download Adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP Live streaming using UDP Content Download Introduction HTTP content download Storage of downloaded content Content Formats Codecs

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4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5.

MPEG-2 single program transport stream MP4 container Timed Text subtitles Audio elementary streams

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Chapter X
1. 1.1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 3.10.

Content Protection : AV Over IP

Chapter Summary Chapter audience Introduction Content protection mechanisms No protection Simple device authentication Device authentication using MS3 Device authentication and transport encryption Device authentication and encrypted content delivery DRM protected content Personalisation Device architecture for content protection and DRM Output controls Protected content formats

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Chapter XI
1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 4. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 7.

Content Acquisition And Management

Chapter Summary Introduction The conceptual model Acquisition subsystem architecture Linear Acquisition (DVR) Overview Bookings and Scheduled Recordings Making a Booking Bookings management Determining which Events to acquire Acquisition Post-acquisition handling IP Downloader The Acquisition Manager General Architecture Local Media Library General Reporting available storage space Metadata storage Storage management Push-VOD for IP Mitigation

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7.1. 7.2.

Introduction Reserved storage for Push-VOD

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Chapter XII
1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 5. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 7. 7.1.

Application Discovery And Installation

Chapter Summary Overview Classes of Application Explicit Application discovery Implicit Application discovery Application discovery and installation architecture Overview Device capabilities Conceptual model Application discovery Installing Applications on the device Application download Application verification Storage Selecting and launching an Application Management and update of installed Applications Checking for an updated version Periodic check for updates Update process Factory Reset and Application data Uninstalling Applications Storage

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Chapter XIII
1. 1.1. 2. 2.1. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4.

Consumer Device UI Management

Chapter Summary Audience Introduction Definition of terms UIME Overview UIME internal architecture Configuration Application Player Manager Introduction UIME Started Application Players Externally Started Application Players Application Manager Introduction UIME Launched Applications Externally Launched Applications Platform UI Applications

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6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 8. 8.1. 8.2. 8.3. 8.4. 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3.

Window Manager Introduction Window lifecycle User Input Event dispatch Window Property Manipulation UI Manager Introduction Viewer Perceived Device State Configuration Application Player Manager configuration Application Manager configuration Window Manager configuration Application Policy Resource Management Management of available memory Management of available CPU Watchdog functions

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Chapter XIV
1. 1.1. 2. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 5. 6. 7.

Presentation Engine Integration

Chapter Summary Chapter audience Operating System Integration Graphics Acceleration DirectFB integration Bitmap rendering Caching of rendered graphics Audio and Video Overview Presentation Display composition Resource management User Input Fonts Networking

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Chapter XV
1. 1.1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4.

MHEG Integration
Chapter Summary Chapter audience Graphics Acceleration DirectFB integration Graphics rendering Font rendering Graphics plane state

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3. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 5. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5.

Channel Tuning User Input DirectFB to MHEG key mappings User input register Networking Application Lifecycle UIME can kill an MHEG application UIME is notified of an MHEG application UIME is notified that an MHEG application has quit Launching other applications Receiving launch parameters

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Chapter XVI
1. 1.1. 2.

Consumer Device Local Diagnostics

Chapter Summary Chapter audience Local Diagnostics within the Platform Main UI

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Chapter XVII
1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3.

Consumer Device Usage And Error Reporting

Chapter Summary Overview Usage data Error data Privacy considerations Usage and error reporting architecture Introduction Usage Collection Agent Exporters

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Chapter XVIII Annexes

Annex A Annex B Related Documents Glossary

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1 This Document
1.1 Introduction
At YouView, were committed to helping develop common technical standards for connected TV. Such standards bring significant advantages, allowing any manufacturer to maximise their investment by re-using their developments in complex technologies across multiple markets. Common standards also mean content providers can more easily share their content widely across any connected TV device, and be part of a wider ecosystem. But making this happen isnt easy; it requires not only knowledge and ability but also a willingness and commitment to participate in such an activity. YouView and our partners have invested heavily in researching and developing the enabling technology for connected TV. Weve also been very active in industry standardisation, primarily as members of the Digital Television Group (DTG) in the development of the D-Book and connected TV standards. Harmonisation with other European standardisation activity has been sought with HbbTV and the EBU through close liaison via the DTG and more directly where appropriate. The aim is to maximise the common underlying technology that underpins a range of platforms, including YouView. By publishing this YouView Core Technical Specification we are giving industry visibility of the technologies within a YouView device, thereby promoting further the commonality across connected TV implementations. In this document we provide the specification of a set of technologies to enable the delivery of broadcast and IP delivered content onto a television set via a broadband connected device. This specification covers the overall architecture of the YouView consumer device as well as the interfaces that promote content interoperability. In addition to these key interoperability elements, we have provided additional insight into YouView specific areas to give a greater clarity and guidance through example implementation detail. The technologies described in this final core technical specification for launch are intrinsic to the first YouView devices. Weve made this specification available here, to help device manufacturers bring products to market utilising the same underlying technologies as a YouView device regardless of whether or not they choose to use our brand. This will help create a competitive market for connected TV devices in the UK and beyond which means more innovation, cheaper devices and more choice for consumers. To assist manufacturers who want to make a YouView branded device, the specification provides our minimum hardware requirements, allowing an informed choice to be made about underlying hardware components. From this document, a manufacturer will also be able to determine the scale and scope of work effort and expertise required, by identifying where their existing device architectures may differ from the YouView architecture. For clarity, this specification in isolation does not enable a manufacturer to build a YouView branded device. Due to the complexities inherent in the nascent connected TV environment, it is necessary for manufacturers to work closely with YouView to ensure that different devices operating within this environment deliver a performant, secure and robust experience for the viewer. This engagement enables the integration of the YouView platform user interface and ensures compatibility with YouView back-end services. For details on how to engage with us please visit www.youview.com/industry/devices Whilst this document is primarily intended for manufacturers, there are useful elements covering content formats and content protection that will be of interest to Content Providers, and information on IP-delivery of content and device configuration that are relevant to ISPs.

1.2 Relationship to DTG D-Book 7

This document makes use of many existing and emerging standards and widely references the DTG D-Book 7 which is the detailed interoperability specification for digital terrestrial television with extended Connected TV functionality. D-Book 7 is divided into two parts:

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Part A, the UK broadcast specification Part B, the architecture and protocols which may be used for interoperable IP delivered services in the UK

This YouView specification currently references D-Book Part A v1, which has been finalised by the DTG. It doesnt currently reference Part B which at the time of writing has been published as a beta v0.9. After the launch of YouView and once D-Book 7 Part B has been published in a non-beta form, YouView will simplify this specification by referencing relevant parts of D-Book 7 Part B, whilst maintaining the functionality currently defined here.

1.3 Implementation
The goal of these specifications is to ensure that certain functionality requirements are attained. Whilst we provide detailed suggestions as to implementation, these are suggestions only. Manufacturers may, for technical or other reasons, need or decide to meet the specified functionality requirements by alternative means. Such alternative means will meet the specification provided the required functionality is delivered.

1.4 Typographical conventions

The formatting listed in the table below identifies special information in the text.
Formatting conventions Information type This indicates the names of commands, files, and directories. This is for information only and indicates intended future functionality, which is not required for launch. An 'Editors note' indicating the current status of a section of the specification text or highlighting a known area of future work. Table 1 : Typographic Conventions

Monospace
Italicised grey

Surrounding box

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Chapter I
Overview

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter describes the operating environment in which a YouView consumer device will be deployed, and in doing so introduces the areas of specification covered by this document.

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2. Consumer Device Operating Environment

The following figure illustrates the operating environment of a YouView consumer device.

Figure 1 : Consumer Device Operating Environment

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3. Summary of Core Requirements

3.1. Consumer Device Hardware
YouView consumer devices are required to meet the hardware requirements specified in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform, which seeks to ensure that a minimum level of consumer experience is achieved. This chapter also includes requirements relating to the remote control including key functions and their mappings and the outputs to be provided by the device to allow connection to a display (as shown in Figure 1).

3.2. Consumer Device Software

The implementation of YouView devices is based on the use of a number of open-source software components, and includes the adoption of Linux as a standard device OS. These are specified in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform and Chapter III Consumer Device Software Architecture. This approach seeks to increase the inherent compliance of consumer devices through use of common software components. It is also a formalisation of strong, existing industry trends, in line with the current or intended approach of many manufacturers. A key part of the low-level software in a connected device is the IP network stack. The requirements for this are specified in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking.

3.3. Consumer Device Software Management

For the purposes of software management, the software running on a YouView consumer device is divided into four elements (as shown in Figure 1). These are as follows: Core Device Software. This is built, installed and managed by the Device Manufacturer. It contains all native code that runs on the device. Platform Software. This is built, installed and managed by the Platform Operator. It can be updated by the Platform Operator independently of Device Manufacturers and without needing to upgrade the Core Device Software. It includes the Platform Main UI, which is a runtime application providing the consumer devices built-in user-interface. This includes: device setup, viewer settings, access to linear TV, access to DVR functionality, and discovery of on-demand content and services. Platform Software will only run with a compatible version of the Core Device Software. Core Device Software must always be distributed with a compatible version of the Platform Software, to ensure that the consumer device always has a safe combination of software elements to fall back on in the event of any problems. Device Configuration. This contains parameters used to control aspects of the consumer devices operation without needing to update either the Core Device Software or the Platform Software. The consumer device must be deployed with a default set of configuration data, aspects of which must be upgradable in the field by the Device, Manufacturer, the Platform Operator and (with suitable consent) the relevant ISP. Content Provider Applications These are built, distributed and managed by Content Providers.

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The way in which the Core Device Software, Platform Software and Device Configuration are managed on the consumer device is specified in Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management. The mechanism by which Content Provider applications are discovered and installed is specified in Chapter XII Application Discovery And Installation.

3.4. Consumer Device Storage Management

This specifies requirements for storage systems integrated into the Consumer Device, and the associated data management functions (clear private data and factory reset). It also specifies the behaviour of the device in the event that integrated storage is replaced or cleared.

3.5. Consumer Device UI Model

YouView consumer devices are required to implement a UI model that supports a federated approach where different parties provide elements of the user experience. The UI model is described in Chapter V Consumer Device UI Model. It provides a means for the Platform Main UI provider to deploy a common user experience across a range of devices from different manufacturers. The UI Model describes how the various elements of Setup, Platform Main UI, Settings and Content Provider Applications fit together so as to result in a unified, seamless experience for the viewer.

3.6. Content Delivery and Content Protection

YouView consumer devices are required to support broadcast (DTT) delivery of content and services as specified in Chapter VIII Broadcast Content Delivery. This builds on the DTG D-Book 7.0 Part A, and includes support for: SD and HD linear television DVB Subtitles and receiver-mix Audio Description MHEG-5 red button interactive services

Requirements for protection (in delivery) and management (once on the device) of broadcast delivered content are as defined in the DTG D-Book 7.0 Part A. Note: Device Manufacturers may build a variant of a standard YouView consumer device, which includes a CA card slot and Conditional Access technology to support PayTV services over broadcast. Details of this are beyond the scope of this document. YouView consumer devices are also required to support broadband (IP) delivery of content and services as specified in Chapter IX IP Content Delivery. This includes support for: HTTP progressive download (PDL) HTTP adaptive bit-rate streaming IP Multicast Timed text subtitles

Requirements for protection (in delivery) and management (once on the device) of IP delivered content are defined in Chapter X Content Protection : AV Over IP. YouView consumer devices provide means for both broadcast and broadband delivered content to be acquired and stored on the device for later consumption by the viewer. The requirements for this are specified in Chapter XI Content Acquisition And Management.

3.7. UI Management and Presentation Engine Integration

YouView consumer devices are required to support multiple concurrent applications which may use more than one presentation technology. Chapter XIII Consumer Device UI Management specifies the

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way in which applications of different types coexist and how the shared device resources required by those applications are managed. Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration specifies how application presentation engines must integrate with the Consumer Device Platform, the Consumer Device Software Architecture and the IP Network Stack to coexist with each other and to support the YouView UI model. Chapter XV MHEG Integration describes additional requirements for the integration of the MHEG-5 engine including those relating to the broadcast-driven lifecycle of MHEG-5 applications.

3.8. Diagnostics and Reporting

YouView consumer devices are required to support Local Diagnostics. This will provide viewers with information that will allow them either to solve problems themselves or be guided to an appropriate solution by a third party. The requirements for local diagnostics are described in Chapter XVI Consumer Device Local Diagnostics. YouView consumer devices must support the secure collection and backhaul of usage and error data as described in Chapter XVII Consumer Device Usage And Error Reporting. This also covers the viewer privacy considerations that must be observed. Usage information may be used to enhance the user experience of the Platform Main UI.

3.9. Platform metadata

The Platform Main UI application presents a content guide to assist viewers in discovering and selecting content made available through the consumer device. The principle modes of content discovery supported are: 1. A basic eight-day lookahead Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) derived from locally-received broadcast metadata. 2. An enhanced EPG for channels from participating Content Providers offering historical schedules and linkages into the on-demand content catalogue. 3. A browsable catalogue of on-demand content items aggregated from participating Content Providers. 4. A means of searching the aggregated on-demand catalogue by keyword. The last three modes of discovery are supported by Platform metadata served from a centralised Metadata Aggregation System operated by the Platform and accessed by the consumer device over its IP network interface. The first mode of discovery ensures that a schedule is available for channels from non-participating Content Providers. It also provides a fallback source of schedule metadata to cover outages in IP network connectivity, and enables the consumer device to operate as a basic DVB receiverdecoder and Digital Video Recorder where it is installed without connection to an IP network. (Discovery of content through third-party "portal" applications is also supported by the Platform, but is not considered further here because this mode is independent of the Platform Main UI application and is not achieved through the use of aggregated Platform metadata.) Platform metadata is contributed into the centralised Metadata Aggregation System by participating Content Providers via a Platform-defined Business-to-Business metadata contribution technical interface. The contributed metadata is transformed by the Metadata Aggregation System into a form that can more easily be consumed by the consumer device and is exposed as a Business-to-Consumer metadata feed in the form of an HTTP-based web service. This corresponds to interface MD4 in the DTG D-Book 7, Part B Section 3.5 and constitutes an implementation-specific metadata delivery interface in that model.

3.10. Accessibility
In addition to the requirements for Access Services already introduced and specified fully in Chapter VIII Broadcast Content Delivery and Chapter IX IP Content Delivery, YouView devices also support a

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range of accessibility features. These are provided through the functionality of the Platform Main UI, building on core features described in Chapter XIII Consumer Device UI Management and Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration.

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Chapter II
Consumer Device Platform

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter defines a common low-level platform for all YouView consumer devices, which in addition to the obvious specification of required connectors etc. seeks to: 1. Ensure that a minimum level of consumer experience can be achieved. This involves the specification of hardware requirements that extend to the main SoC/processor, such as hardware AV codec support, hardware decryption support and hardware graphics acceleration. This is to allow a range of different SoCs to be used whilst still achieving the desired objective. This also involves the specification of how such hardware capability can be exposed to higherlevel software in a consistent, compliant manner. 2. Increase the inherent compliance of consumer devices through use of common software components. This relates to a formalisation of strong, existing industry trends around the use of common open-source software components, in line with the current or intended approach of many manufacturers. This chapter describes requirements for a YouView DTT HD DVR product.

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Design hardware that meets the capability and performance requirements Integrate the required low level software components Design a remote control supporting the required functions

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Device Platform Summary

The following table summarises the main features of the device platform. The subsequent sections provide more detailed specification of these items.
Required
1

Function 2 2.1 Consumer device platform Core hardware CPU: 950 DMIPS+

Commentary

Specific silicon products proposed to be incorporated into a YouView device will be evaluated by YouView. Higher bandwidth may improve performance. See section 3.3. The amount of Flash memory required will depend significantly on which categories of data are stored in Flash and which on disk.

RAM: 512 Mbyte min Minimum DDR bandwidth: 3 Gbyte/sec. Flash memory

Y Y

2.2

Internal hard disk 320 GB min. Support for on disk encryption using AES128 or Triple DES. Y Y See section 3.3. Required for HD broadcast content.

2.3

Input / output USB 2.0 Ethernet port supporting 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX Y Y Minimum of two: At least one on front panel and one on rear. For Internet connectivity and Home Networking. May be used in conjunction with fixed wire, power line adapter or wireless adapter as convenient in home. Integrated wireless Ethernet is optional. If not provided, the device must support the use of USB Wifi adapters.

Integrated wireless Ethernet: 802.11n.

Unique MAC address for Ethernet, programmed at Manufacture 2x dual-mode DVB-T/T2 tuners

Y Y RF characteristics as specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. DVB-T2 is used for HD services on digital terrestrial. Including support for HDCP, auto lipsync, CEC One-Touch Play and System Standby, Multichannel linear PCM audio, bitstream audio, YcbCr 4:2:2 12-bit, BT709 colorimetry.

1x HDMI v1.3

1x SCART Analogue HD outputs Modulated UHF output RF loop-through Separate stereo audio

Y E N Y N Excluded as part of rights management strategy. Strongly desired but not required. Remains powered in standby. Stereo audio may be provided on RCA sockets if present

Y = yes; N=no/optional; E=excluded/not permitted; C=conditional (see commentary)

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Function Digital audio (DTS or AC-3 bitstream or linear stereo PCM) Adjustable delay on audio output Serial I/O Common Interface Slot CA card slot 2.4 Peripheral devices Support for USB mass storage devices Support for USB wireless Ethernet adapter Support for USB human interface devices Support for USB Bluetooth adapter Support for SD card reader 2.5 Graphics 1280x720 32bpp ARGB8888 graphics plane Support for simultaneous display of subtitles, MHEG engine and top level navigation 2D graphics hardware acceleration 3D graphics hardware acceleration

Required

Commentary Optical or coaxial SPDIF connection. Accommodate display video delay (pref. Automatically)

Y Y N N N

Where provided, CI+ recommended. Could be added in pay operator specific variant of the device.

Y C Y N N

For presentation of content from USB drives. No requirement to export content. Required for domestic connectivity if the IEEE 802.11n standard is not supported internally. Required for accessibility applications.

Y Y Note: may be implemented using multiple hardware graphics layers or by hardware-assisted composition onto a single layer. Detailed specification provided in section 3.8 below. Not required. However, support for OpenGL ES 2.0 and/or OpenVG may allow for higher performance rendering for presentation environments that make use of vector shapes or non-rectangular bitmap transformations.

Y N

2.6

AV codecs SD video: MPEG-2 MP@ML 25Hz SD video: MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264/AVC) Main and High Profile Level 3.0 HD video: MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264/AVC) Main and High Profile Level 4.0 Audio: MPEG-1 Layer II Audio: Dolby AC-3 Audio: Dolby E-AC-3 (inc. transcode to AC-3 or DTS) Audio: Multi-channel HE-AAC (inc. transcode to AC-3 or DTS) Audio: Down-mix of E-AC-3 and multichannel HE-AAC to stereo Y Y As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. High profile included as will already be supported for HD services. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. Decode of existing SD FTA terrestrial services.

Y Y N Y Y Y

Up to 5.1 channel surround sound. Up to 5.1 channel surround sound. As specified by DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1.

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Function Audio: HE-AAC and LC-AAC Audio description: Receiver mix

Required

Commentary As specified by DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. In stereo mode, good for low bitrate services. As specified by DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 4.5. Requires dual decode and mix. Devices shall provide an option to enable AD on all outputs or only on SPDIF output. Elementary streams.

Y Y

Audio: MPEG-1 Layer III Content decryption 2.7 Remote control Minimum set of remote control functions Basic functions available from the device front panel Remote control design to observe requirements for accessibility

Y Y

Y N Y Standby button required, other buttons optional. See section 3.15 below. Includes: layout of keys; contrast between labelling and background; and presence of dedicated subtitle and, where relevant, audio description keys.

Single/common remote control design Remote control protocol and codes made available by manufacturers Free-field remote control 2.8 Operating system & standard libraries Embedded Linux 2.6.23 or later DirectFB graphics environment with multi-application core 2.9 Misc Fan-less operation

N Y N For providers of alternative remotes.

Y Y

2.6.31 or later preferred.

Devices may have a fan subject to the requirements of section 3.5 below.

Table 2 : Device Platform Summary

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3. Core Consumer Device Platform

This section describes in further detail the requirements listed in the table in section 2.

3.1. Silicon
All consumer devices will need to be based on SoCs for which the ability to support the necessary functionality has been established.

3.2. Connectivity
3.2.1. Network
The device shall provide an auto-negotiating Ethernet port for connection to a TCP/IP network. The port shall support at least 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX physical layers via an RJ-45/8P8C socket with MDI wiring as specified by the IEEE 802.3 standard. 1000BASE-T may also be supported. Multicast capability is required. Devices shall support half duplex mode, full duplex mode and full duplex with flow control. The default shall be to auto negotiate but devices must also support manual selection of a specific mode. It is recommended that the Ethernet port have link and traffic indicator lights to simplify the diagnosis of connection problems. The Ethernet MAC address shall be available to the configuration user interface for diagnostic purposes. Note: MAC address shall not be used as a device unique identifier for any other purpose. Devices shall support wireless networking, either using a built-in IEEE 802.11n adapter, or by supporting the configuration and use of optional USB IEEE 802.11g-compliant and IEEE 802.11ncompliant adapters. Devices may restrict the range of adapters that are supported, for example to limit the number of drivers required. There may be a minimum set of drivers defined to be supported in all devices. Use of WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) is recommended, to simplify configuration. Devices shall also provide options to configure the wireless interface manually by selecting from a list of SSIDs. Devices shall support WEP, WPA/PSK and WPA2/PSK encryption. PowerLine Telecommunications (PLT) shall be supported as an option for network connectivity, either built in to the device or via an external Ethernet-connected adapter. However, only solutions supporting ETSI TS 102 578 may be provided or recommended for use with connected television devices. Note: the intention here is not to require PLT to be built into the device (although this is an option) but to ensure that the device interoperates with external PLT adapters.

3.2.2. UHF input

The device shall have a combination of tuners and demodulators that permits: reception of two DVB-T multiplexes simultaneously; reception of one DVB-T multiplex and one DVB-T2 multiplex; or reception of two DVB-T2 multiplexes simultaneously

For DVB-T and DVB-T2, the RF characteristics from DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 shall apply.

3.2.3. A/V outputs

Devices shall provide A/V connections as specified in section 22.3.4.4.1 of DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 with the following changes: HDMI Auto Lipsync Correction, CEC One-Touch Play and System Standby are mandatory. Note that the Auto Lipsync feature implies HDMI version 1.3.

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A manual audio delay adjustment affecting analogue and SPDIF outputs (both PCM and nonPCM) shall also be provided, as specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. When used, this manual adjustment shall override the automatic adjustment. These adjustments shall not affect the timing of HDMI audio. The HDMI output shall use BT709 colorimetry. SD output modes shall not be used over HDMI unless the display offers no HD display mode; in all other cases, the device shall up-scale SD video to the configured HD output resolution. Devices are not required to offer any user-selectable option for HDMI output resolutions below 720p. The HDMI connection shall be monitored to detect when a display is connected or removed.

As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1, devices shall not have analogue component HD outputs. Devices shall have the hardware capability to output CGMS-A signalling on analogue SD outputs. However, by default, no CGMS-A restrictions shall be signalled. CGMS-A restrictions shall be signalled only when presenting protected IP-delivered content and only where specifically mandated by YouView specifications. Devices shall have at least one SCART connector supporting RGB and composite video. Devices may have an additional AUX SCART connector but this is not required. If present, loopthrough of composite video, RGB video and audio inputs from this SCART to the primary SCART shall be provided whilst in standby and under pin 8 control. When a SCART output is active but is not the primary output, it is recommended that volume control functions do not apply to that output. Additional analogue and digital audio outputs are optional. Volume controls shall not affect the SPDIF audio level. Audio output requirements are specified further in sections 3.11.3 and 3.11.4 below.

3.2.4. USB devices

Devices shall provide at least two high speed, high power, USB 2.0 host ports. There shall be at least one connector on the front of the device and at least one on the back. The USB standard A socket shall be used.

3.3. Internal storage

Devices shall have internal non-volatile storage to hold the device software image and to store A/V content. The internal storage may utilise either Flash memory or a hard disc or both. However, devices must adhere to the power management requirements specified in section 3.4 below. The device is not required to continue to function in the event of a hard disc failure. However, where possible, the device should be able to report such a failure to the user. See also Chapter VII Consumer Device Storage Management.

3.3.1. Media storage

HD DVR devices shall have storage for at least 300 Gbytes of A/V content. Storage for broadcast recordings and IP downloads shall be managed as a single storage area. Devices shall support reservation of 30 Gbytes of the media storage area for background pushed content. HD broadcast content stored on disk shall be encrypted with AES128 or 3DES. Content obtained in encrypted form over IP shall be stored on disk as is. If decryption keys for stored content are themselves held on the hard disk, they shall be encrypted with a key linked to a device identifier such that the keys cannot be extracted if the hard disk is transplanted into a different device.

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3.3.2. Swap space

Devices may use internal storage as swap space if this improves performance. However, consideration should be given to locking the main user interface processes in RAM.

3.4. Power management

Devices shall comply with all applicable legislation on standby power consumption. Device manufacturers shall take all reasonable steps to minimise power consumption in active standby mode. Typical steps will be: reduce CPU clock speed, power down hard discs, power down A/V outputs, power down system components not in use, switch SDRAM to self-refresh, use hardware timers to wake up device from low power state.

3.5. Noise constraints

The device noise level, defined as the mean of the four A-weighted emission sound pressure levels measured at the preferred bystander positions in accordance with ISO 7779:2010, shall meet the following constraints:
State Idle mode, as defined by ISO 7779:2010 for the category Digital media recorders and playback units for consumer use (with no recordings or downloads taking place). Operating mode (fully on or making a recording or download). Table 3 : Noise constraints Noise constraint < 24 dB(A)

< 26 dB(A)

In all cases, the constraints shall apply across the devices full operating ambient temperature range or up to 45 C, whichever is the higher. Devices may have a fan, provided that they meet the noise level requirements listed above and provided that the fan speed is controlled and arranged to run only as necessary to maintain the internal temperature within its normal operating range.

3.6. Operating system

Devices shall be built using the Linux operating system with glibc. The following version requirements apply:
Component Linux kernel Glibc Toolchain (GCC) Min version 2.6.23 (2.6.31 or later preferred) 2.6 4.2 Table 4 : Kernel and tool chain requirements Notes SMP support required for devices where SoC has a multi-core application CPU.

The Linux kernel shall be suitably configured for use on a platform with limited resources. Device drivers for the following functions are required: SATA USB 2.0 (including hot plug support) Powered and non-powered USB hubs USB mass storage

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USB human interface devices (USB keyboard, gamepad and mouse buttons, for accessibility input devices) USB 802.11g and 802.11n adapters with WPA and WPA2 support (may be restricted to adapters requiring specific drivers). Note: support for USB Wifi adapters is not required if the device has built-in 802.11n support. Ethernet, TCP/IP, multicast (both SSM and ASM) IR remote control DirectFB fusion shm/ipc module (version 8.1.1 or later) Watchdog (if supported by SoC) ALSA PCM sound
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Set top box functions (typically using silicon-vendor provided drivers)

The following filesystems shall be supported: vfat filesystem (for USB devices) Filesystem suitable for large media files (e.g. xfs. Note: ext3 is unlikely to be suitable due to the excessively long time taken to delete large files) Filesystem suitable for general purpose use (e.g. ext3) Filesystem suitable for Flash memory (e.g. jffs2) Filesystem for unpacking platform software images (cramfs)

Filesystems used within the device shall be recoverable in the event of a power failure while the device is in use.

3.7. Standard libraries

The following table lists software libraries that are required or recommended.
Library C libraries C++ libraries DirectFB SaWMan DBus libpng Libjpeg libz libcurl libxml2 OpenSSL Status Required Required Required Required Required Required Required Required Required Required Required Min version See section 3.2 above. See section 3.2 above. 1.4.5 1.4.5 1.2.24 1.2.44 7 1.2.3 Latest available 2.6.32 Latest available
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Notes libc, libm, libpthread, librt, libdl, and libresolv. As supplied with compiler. Full requirements are detailed in section 3.8 below. Shared application window manager for DirectFB. IPC library. PNG image decoder. Older versions unsuitable due to security concerns. JPEG image decoder. Zlib compression library. Older versions unsuitable due to security concerns. HTTP client library. For security reasons, the most recent possible version should be used. XML parser Encryption library for TLS, MHEG security etc. For security reasons, the most recent possible version should always be used.

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Where this is not available, it can be omitted but additional porting work will be required for some software components. Version 1.4.3 can be used with the addition of a set of patches available from YouView.

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Library SQLite log4cplus Libasound Freetype

Status Required Required Recommended Recommended

Min version 3.6.22 1.0.4 1.0.15 2.3.9

Notes Lightweight database for configuration information. Logging library. ALSA sound API for presentation engines. Text rendering for MHEG.

Table 5 : Library requirements

Additional libraries may be required to support specific presentation engines, uPnP/DLNA and for device setup and configuration. These are not included in this list. For efficiency, shared libraries shall be used in all cases.

3.8. DirectFB requirements

3.8.1. Version
DirectFB 1.4 version 1.4.5 or later is required.

3.8.2. Multi-application core

DirectFB shall support the multi-application core using the Fusion kernel module and support libraries. The DirectFB system and gfxdriver plugins for the hardware being used must support use in a multiapplication environment. DirectFB shall support applications running as different Linux users.

3.8.3. Presentation engine integration

Presentation engines requiring graphics display shall do so through a DirectFB Window. Presentation engines may not directly manipulate DirectFB layer surfaces.

3.8.4. Layers
The DirectFB implementation shall provide at least the capabilities to manage a single primary graphics layer. This layer will be used to compose the graphics from various presentation engines. This composition process may use alpha blending and as a result, the graphics layer will always contain alpha-premultiplied pixel data. Consequently, the layer shall support the option to blend with the video layer in manner that takes into account this premultiplication. The graphics layer shall support the following capabilities: DLCAPS_SURFACE DLCAPS_OPACITY DLCAPS_ALPHACHANNEL DLCAPS_PREMULTIPLIED
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3.8.5. 2D acceleration
The graphics performance of the device depends on the presentation engines having access to the 2D hardware acceleration functions provided by the SoC. Devices shall provide acceleration through a suitable DirectFB graphics driver for at least the following set of operations:

The DirectFB implementation must accept a configuration with this option. The platform must either act on this flag directly or must provide an alternative means for the graphics layer to be configured to handle premultiplied pixel data.

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Operation FillRectangle FillRectangles

Blending flags DSDRAW_NOFX DSDRAW_BLEND

Blending functions N/A SRC (1, 0) SRC_OVER (1, 1Asrc) N/A

Notes

Blit StretchBlit BatchBlit

DSBLIT_NOFX

DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL

SRC (1, 0) SRC_OVER (1, 1Asrc) SRC (1, 0) SRC_OVER (1, 1Asrc) SRC (1, 0) SRC_OVER (1, 1Asrc) SRC (1, 0) SRC_OVER (1, 1Asrc)

Used to blend images that have an alpha channel and premultiplied pixel data. Used to blend images that have an alpha channel and nonpremultiplied pixel data. Used to apply a constant alpha value to an image that has an alpha channel and premultiplied pixel data. Used to apply a constant alpha value to an image that has an alpha channel and nonpremultiplied pixel data. Required to be supported in combination with all blending flag combinations listed above.

DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL | DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL | DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORALPHA | DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTCOLOR DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL | DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORALPHA | DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY DSBLIT_COLORIZE

DSBLIT_SRC_COLORKEY

None

Required only if colour keying is more efficient than blending and then only if subtitles must be rendered on the same graphics plane as the UI. Otherwise not required.

Table 6 : Graphics acceleration operations

The performance of these hardware accelerated functions shall be at least as specified in the following table for all pixel formats that are required to be accelerated (see below):
Operation Rectangle fill Rectangle fill (blended) Blit Blit (blended) StretchBlit upscale (with and without blending) StretchBlit downscale (with and without blending) Performance required 200 Mpixel/sec 120 Mpixel/sec 120 Mpixel/sec 100 Mpixel/sec At least the same as a straight Blit of the destination size At least the same as a straight Blit of the source size

Table 7 : 2D Graphics performance

These figures shall be achievable when the device is showing broadcast SD video. Graphics performance may degrade during HD video playback, or playback of content from IP. Accelerated blitting operations shall be supported for at least the following pixel formats: ARGB and ARGB4444 (as source and destination formats) and A8 (as a source format and for A8 to A8 copy). If

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subtitles must be rendered on the same graphics plane as the UI, LUT8 is also required as a source format. The results of hardware accelerated operations shall agree with the DirectFB software renderer to within the following tolerances:
Operation Simple blit with no blending All other operations Destination pixel format Any ARGB ARGB Not ARGB Source pixel format Same as destination ARGB Not ARGB Any Colour max RMS error Zero 2% 2% 10% Alpha max error Zero 1% 7% 7%

Table 8 : Blending tolerances

3.8.6. Plug-ins
DirectFB image providers shall be provided for at least the following formats: PNG, JPEG and GIF. Where hardware image decoding is available, this should be supported through DirectFB. Presentation engines are recommended to use DirectFB for image decoding wherever possible in order to take advantage of any hardware acceleration that is available.

3.8.7. User input

DirectFB input drivers shall be provided for the devices IR remote control and for USB keyboard, gamepad and mouse devices (mouse drivers need only support button press events). Support for USB input devices allows for custom user input devices to meet accessibility requirements. All input devices shall support auto-repeating keys, generating multiple DirectFB KEYPRESS events while the key is held down and a single KEYRELEASE event when the key is released. For remote control input, a repeat interval of around 100ms is recommended, with an initial repeat delay of 400ms. Key repeat functionality can be implemented in the DirectFB input driver if desired.

3.8.8. Clipping
It is strongly recommended that devices implement clipping in a manner that meets the following requirements: pixels outside the defined clipping region are unmodified by blitting and drawing operations pixels within the clipping region are rendered in exactly the same way as they would have been were the clipping region not set. Note: special care must be taken to comply with this requirement when performing StretchBlit operations where the clipping region does not align with the destination rectangle.

Implementations in which clipping does not satisfy these requirements will necessitate less efficient rendering techniques for presentation engines.

3.9. Graphics layers

Graphics from the various presentation engines shall be rendered through DirectFB. Presentation of DVB subtitles may also be rendered in this way. However, it is recommended that DVB subtitles be rendered into a separate hardware graphics plane if one is available that can support 8bpp pixel data. Subtitles are always positioned directly in front of the video plane, below the main graphics. The graphics layer managed by the screen manager shall have a resolution of 1280x720. The device shall be responsible for managing the output of this graphics plane on the different output resolutions that the device is required to support. Implementations shall take into account filtering requirements

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for interlaced displays. The graphics system is performance critical. Devices shall optimise the graphics path appropriately for the particular SoC used.

3.10. HTTP client library (libcurl)

Presentation engines and the metadata subsystem require an HTTP client library. To minimise code duplication, porting efforts and for interoperability, devices shall use the libcurl library for this function, with cryptographic functions provided by OpenSSL. libcurl shall be compiled with the following protocols and features enabled: Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FILE Features: SSL, IPv6 , libz, cookies, proxy
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The following features are not required and should be disabled: FTP, ldap, ldaps, dict, telnet, tftp, sspi, gnutls, nss, libidn

3.11. A/V handling

3.11.1. Video codecs
Hardware support for the following video codecs is required:
Codec SD: MPEG-2 MP@ML 25Hz SD: MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264/AVC) Main and High Profile Level 3.0 HD: MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264/AVC) Main and High Profile Level 4.0 Notes As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. High profile included as will already be supported for HD services. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1.

Table 9 : Video codecs

The H.264/AVC video decoder shall support dynamic changes of bitrate and decoded frame sizes that occur at IDR points.

3.11.2. Audio codecs

Support for the following audio codecs is required:
Codec MPEG-1 Layer II Dolby E-AC-3 Multi-channel HE-AAC Stereo HE-AAC and LC-AAC Receiver-mix audio description MPEG-1 Layer III Notes As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. Decode of existing SD FTA terrestrial services. Up to 5.1 channel surround sound. See section 3.11.3 below. Up to 5.1 channel surround sound. See section 3.11.3 below. Devices shall support ADTS encapsulation as well as LATM/LOAS. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. Devices shall support ADTS encapsulation as well as LATM/LOAS. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. See section 3.11.4 below. Elementary streams, with or without ID3 tags. Table 10 : Audio codecs
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IPv6 is not required for launch

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Audio decoders shall support dynamic changes of encoded bitrate between access units. The AAC decoder shall support seamless transitions between access units that use SBR and those that do not. HE-AAC decoders shall support dynamic range control as described in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 4.4.1.2.

3.11.3. Audio mixing and transcoding

Devices shall support the audio output and transcoding requirements specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. The following figures show a logical model for audio flow within the device.
Delay Delay not required if only analogue output is SCART D to A Stereo analogue SCART/ RCA

Nonprogramme sound (premixed)

Main programme sound

Stereo PCM

Delay HDMI

Audio description

Stereo PCM

Delay SPDIF

Figure 2 : Audio flow logical model where the main programme sound is stereo
Stereo analogue

Delay Delay not required if only analogue output is SCART Downmix

D to A

SCART/RCA

Nonprogramme sound (premixed)

Stereo PCM

5.1 PCM Main programme sound Delay Encode AC3 or DTS HDMI

Passthrough (see note 1)

AC3 or DTS See note 2 Audio description Notes: 1. This mode is required by DTG D-Book 7 but is not recommended unless specifically requested by the user as it does not allow for mixing with other audio sources on the receiver. Audio description may be routed to all outputs, to SPDIF only, or disabled. When audio description is enabled, receiver may restrict all outputs to stereo. Stereo PCM Delay SPDIF

Stereo Multi-channel

2.

Figure 3 : Audio flow logical model where the main programme sound is multi-channel

Audio delay for HDMI is controlled by the HDMI Auto Lipsync Correction feature. Audio delay for analogue and SPDIF outputs is controlled by a user configuration setting.

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Volume level normalisation is required in order to ensure that the audio level at the output of the device is the same for all audio codecs. This is achieved by applying a gain factor that is the difference between a target level for a particular output and the reference level of the audio source. The gain factor may be positive or negative. Note: the audio level adjustments required to meet these requirements are not shown on the diagram but are described below. E-AC3 services shall be normalised using the reference level indicated by the dialnorm parameter within the E-AC3 bitstream. HE-AAC services shall be normalised using the reference level indicated by the prog ref level parameter within the HE-AAC bitstream. MPEG-1 layer II services shall be assumed to have a reference level of -23 dB FS. Devices shall assume that non-programme sound is mixed to a programme reference level of -23 dB FS so as to match standard definition MPEG-1 layer II audio services. At the SPDIF output and for HDMI outputs where the sink supports bitstream audio, audio shall be normalised such that the reference level corresponds to a target level of -31 dB FS. For HDMI outputs where the sink does not support bitstream audio and for all analogue outputs, the audio shall be normalised such that the reference level corresponds to a target level of -23 dB FS. As an example, for an HE-AAC bitstream with a prog ref level parameter of 0x7c (-31 dB FS) going to an HDMI output where the sink does not support bitstream audio, a gain factor of +8 dB shall be applied. Note: bitstreams can be expected to carry dynamic range control signalling that will ensure that clipping does not occur as a result of the normalisation process. See also DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 4.4.1.2. The diagrams do not show any sample rate conversion but this may be required where different audio sources have a different sample rate. Non-programme sound may originate from any presentation engine and there may be multiple sources active at any time. For the purposes of these diagrams, all non-programme sound is assumed to have been premixed to stereo PCM. Devices may support additional audio output options to those shown.

3.11.4. Audio description

Devices shall support receiver-mix audio description services, as specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 4.5. Devices shall provide the following user configuration settings for the output of audio description: Audio description disabled Audio description mixed with all audio outputs Audio description mixed with audio on SPDIF output; main programme sound sent to all other audio outputs. Note: in this mode, the SPDIF output is only required to provide a stereo mix.

3.11.5. Content decryption

Devices shall support decryption of content encrypted using the following schemes. For MPEG-2 transport streams: AES with a 128-bit key using the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) encryption mode with the residual termination block process from ANSI/SCTE 52 2003, as specified in IEC 62455 section 6.4.6. For MP4: AES-based. Hardware shall support at least general-purpose decryption of AES-128-CTR and AES-128-CBC. Further details of encryption formats can be found in Chapter X Content Protection : AV Over IP and Chapter IX IP Content Delivery.

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3.11.6. A/V recordings and accurate playback

Devices shall support frame accurate playback of content recorded from a linear broadcast stream. Driver support shall be provided to allow for accurate playback between specified start and end positions. To achieve this, devices shall generate sufficient indexing metadata during recording so that playback can be requested from any PTS value. Generally, this will require the creation of an index file that contains PTS values and corresponding byte offsets for each frame within the stream file. Only the PTS values of frames from which clean decoding of the stream can commence need be stored in the index file. The low-level media playback subsystem shall accept any valid PTS value to begin playback. The playback subsystem shall seek to the nearest previous frame from which decoding can begin and begin presenting A/V media once the requested start PTS has been reached in the file. Media between the seek point and the start point shall not be presented. Where a subtitles stream is present in a broadcast service, this shall be included in recordings made from that service.

3.11.7. Video decoding and resource management

Devices shall support one HD video decode and presentation path to the specifications of DTG DBook 7 Part A v1. Devices shall support the decoding of additional low resolution video streams for presentation on the graphics plane up to a maximum combined source pixel area of 720x576 pixels. It is acceptable for there to be occasional dropped frames in the rendering of video onto the graphics plane and performance may degrade further if the video is subject to blending or up-scaling or has a source resolution greater than 360x288. The primary A/V decode path shall not drop frames. The following figure illustrates the primary and additional video paths.
Player 1 e.g. broadcast video

Primary video decoder Player 2 e.g. IP media streaming

Video presentation controls

Primary video plane

etc.

Video decoder etc. Resource management

DirectFB window

Graphics plane

Player 3 e.g. presentation engine with builtin A/V capability

Figure 4 : Primary and additional video paths

Multiple components in the YouView software architecture need to access the primary video decode path. Devices shall implement a resource management function such that each such component can use the hardware resources associated with this path. The resource management function is not required to support multiple components controlling the primary decode path at the same time.

3.11.8. A/V component selection and presentation controls

The figure below shows the various component selection and presentation controls required. The case shown best reflects the situation where broadcast video is being presented. The orange line indicates the resource management function from the previous diagram. The controls shaded green

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are controls that are expected to be adjusted by the viewer; those shaded blue are expected to be adjusted by application software.
Video Format conversion Scale V-P3

V-S1

Video decoder

V-P1

V-P2

VIDEO OUT

PCM audio (See note i) Components of selected broadcast or IP delivered stream

Audio Audio decoder A-P1 AD-E2 A-S1 See Note ii SPDIF Audio description Note: this is a simplified view of the audio system. See also section 3.11.3. AD-P1 A-P2 MAIN AUDIO

A-S2

AD-S2

AD-E1

AD decoder

AD-S1

Subtitles

S-S2

S-E1

Subtitle decoder

S-S1

Figure 5 : Component selection and required presentation controls

Notes: i. Presentation engines may output stereo PCM audio samples to be combined with audio from the media pipeline. Please refer to the appropriate presentation engine integration specification for details. The audio description decoder (marked AD decoder) is able to adjust the volume of the audio coming out of the main audio decoder as part of its built-in behaviour. This is depicted by the dotted arrow. The audio volume control A-P1 affects the audio level after this has happened.

ii.

The table below describes the function of the various controls:

Control V-S1 V-P1 V-P2 V-P3 A-S1 Function This is the application-controlled video component selector. It can select between any of the video components from the selected source or can select nothing. This is the viewers aspect ratio control. It combines with V-P2 to influence the composition of the video picture and the display formatting. This is an application control for aspect ratio conversion. It combines with V-P1 to influence the composition of the video picture and the display formatting. This is an application control of video scaling and positioning. This is the viewers audio language preference and forwards a default audio component to control A-S2.

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Control A-S2 A-P1 A-P2 AD-S1 AD-S2

Function This is an application-controlled audio component selector. It can select between any of the audio components from the selected source, the default component from A-S1 or nothing. This is the application-controlled audio volume control. It is specific to the audio coming from the audio decoder and does not affect other audio sources on the device. This is the viewers master volume control and controls all audio outputs that are controllable. This is the viewers audio description language preference (which may be set automatically to match A-S1). This is an application-controlled audio description component selector. It can select between any of the audio description components from the selected source, the default component from AD-S1 or nothing. This is the viewers audio description enabling control. This is the viewers audio description volume control. It adjusts the audio description volume independently of the main audio volume. The control defaults to following A-P2. The viewer controls the offset that makes the audio description quieter or louder relative to the main audio. This control determines whether audio description appears on all outputs or only on the SPDIF output. This is the viewers subtitle language preference (which may be set automatically to match A-S1). This is the application-controlled subtitle component selector. It can select between any of the audio components from the selected source, the default component from S-S1 or nothing. This is the viewers subtitle enabling control. Table 11 : Presentation controls

AD-E1 AD-P1

AD-E2 S-S1 S-S2

S-E1

3.11.9. Video scaling and aspect ratio conversion

Devices shall observe aspect ratio information encoded in A/V content. Implementers should note that 704x576 H.264 video with an encoded pixel aspect ratio of 16:11 is a full screen 16:9 format that requires only scaling for output to 1280x720 or 1920x1080 displays but requires horizontal padding at each side and no scaling for output to 720x576 SD outputs. Similarly, 720x576 H.264 video with an encoded pixel aspect ratio of 16:11 is a format with horizontal overscan which can be output directly to a 720x576 SD output but requires cropping to scale only the central 704x576 portion to 1280x720 or 1920x1080 in order to preserve the correct aspect ratio. Similar considerations apply to other resolutions such as 544x576 or 352x288. Devices must take care to apply the correct cropping and scaling operations for these formats. It is not sufficient simply to scale the image to the display size.

3.12. Device software upgrade

Devices need to store several different types of information in non-volatile storage: Core device software image (Linux kernel and root filesystem) Platform policy information and user interface User configuration information Persistent data associated with third party services and applications, e.g. cookies Cached metadata and data relating to third party services

The core device software image is managed by the device manufacturer. Devices must be able to update their software image.

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Devices shall be tolerant of power interruption at any time. More detailed specification of the device upgrade requirements can be found in Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management.

3.13. Security
Note: nothing in this section implies that any of the keys or identifiers listed here will be made available to application-level software. The device shall use a secure boot mechanism to ensure that only manufacturer-signed software images can be run on the device. JTAG shall be disabled or password protected in production devices. The device shall have a unique encryption key known to the manufacturer held securely and not available directly to the application CPU. The device shall have a unique immutable ID available to software running on the box and known to the manufacturer. This ID shall not be the devices MAC address. The device shall have a unique RSA private key and corresponding X.509 certificate signed by the manufacturer. The RSA private key shall not be stored unencrypted in Flash memory or on the hard disk. No key described above shall be present unencrypted in the device software image, nor in any device upgrade file or over-air download carousel. Devices shall support hardware-accelerated image decryption and signature verification, including of the root file system, other file systems and the platform software. The device shall be capable of supporting DTCP-IP. Content protection mechanisms for broadcast-delivered content shall be as specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. Content protection mechanisms for IP-delivered content shall be as described in Chapter X Content Protection : AV Over IP.

3.14. Automatic reset

It is recommended that devices incorporate a hardware watchdog timer that will automatically reset the device in the event that the device software stops functioning.

3.15. Front panel buttons, indicators and displays

This specification does not specify any requirements for status indicator lights or information displays. Where front panel indicator lights or displays are present, they shall not display information that is inconsistent with the standby state of the device (as perceived by the user) or with information shown in the UI. Devices shall have a front panel standby button. Holding down the standby button shall force a reboot of the device. Additional front panel buttons are optional. If front panel buttons are provided to duplicate the functions of remote control keys, the following set of keys will allow the operation of many device functions: standby, up, down, left, right, OK, back and the menu button.

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4. User Input Device

4.1. User input functions
The following table shows the user input functions required and their mappings to DirectFB key symbols:
Function On/Standby Description To toggle between active and stand-by mode. DirectFB key symbol DIKS_POWER to toggle between ON and STANDBY mode. Note: this event may not be generated if the device is in a low power mode when the key is pressed. DIKS_ESCAPE

Close

Allow the user to immediately exit an application, EPG or other user interaction function. Display the top level user interface menu. Show the main programme guide. Mute the audio output. Access contextual help. Keys used to provide user interaction to a variety of device functions.

Menu Guide Mute sound Help Cursor control keys (Up, Down, Left, Right)

DIKS_MENU DIKS_EPG DIKS_MUTE DIKS_HELP DIKS_CURSOR_UP, DIKS_CURSOR_DOWN, DIKS_CURSOR_LEFT, DIKS_CURSOR_RIGHT DIKS_OK DIKS_BACK

OK Back

Allow the user to confirm or select a particular screen choice or action. Allow the user to move back one step in an interactive application, EPG or other user interaction function. Increase or decrease the audio level. Step up or down to the next service available to the user, normally ordered by number. Enter an interactive application while viewing a channel. Display programme information. Accessibility and web view management. Keys to control playback of recorded or streamed content. Keys to skip forward and back by 30 seconds. Buttons available to device functions to aid user interaction. May also be used to enter an interactive application while viewing a channel. Primarily for numeric entry but also labelled so as to support text entry.

Volume up/down Channel up/down

DIKS_VOLUME_UP, DIKS_VOLUME_DOWN DIKS_CHANNEL_UP, DIKS_CHANNEL_DOWN DIKS_TEXT DIKS_INFO DIKS_ZOOM DIKS_REWIND, DIKS_PLAY, DIKS_FASTFORWARD, DIKS_STOP, DIKS_PAUSE, DIKS_RECORD DIKS_NEXT, DIKS_PREVIOUS DIKS_RED, DIKS_GREEN, DIKS_YELLOW, DIKS_BLUE

Text Info Zoom DVR controls

DVR skip controls Red, Green, Yellow, Blue

Numeric entry

DIKS_0 DIKS_9 with key identifiers set to the values DIKI_KP_0 through DIKI_KP_9

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Function Dual function: Shift (during text entry) Audio Description (toggle) Dual function: Delete (during text entry) Subtitles (toggle) Search On Demand ISP button MyView Retailer / device manufacturer brand shortcut

Description

DirectFB key symbol DIKS_AUDIO

Toggle upper and lower case text entry. Enable/disable audio description. DIKS_SUBTITLE Delete a character from a text field. Enable/disable subtitles. Short cut to search function within the YouView UI. Short cut to on demand section of the UI. Affiliate ISP short cut to broadband services page within the YouView UI. Short cut to the MyView section of the UI. Short cut to retailer / device manufacturer brand presence within the YouView UI. DIKS_GOTO DIKS_F2 DIKS_F3 DIKS_F4 DIKS_F5

Table 12 : Key mappings

Any additional manufacturer-specific keys shall use DirectFB key symbols in the range DIKS_CUSTOM0 to DIKS_CUSTOM9.

4.2. Additional control codes

In addition to the standby toggle function, the IR remote control code set shall include an independent power on control code. This is to support the use of programmable remote controls. This additional key code shall generate the DIKS_POWER2 DirectFB key event.

4.3. Physical requirements

The following physical requirements apply. (In some cases, example approaches to meeting the requirement are given; these are indications of best practice but are not mandatory, and the manufacturer may choose to meet the requirement in other appropriate ways.) Keys shall be large and well separated (for example separated by 50% or more of button width). Adjacent keys shall be tactilely distinguishable (for example be raised or have raised edges). There shall be a raised dot or nib on the figure 5 key of the numeric pad. Keys shall be logically grouped by function and those functional groups should be separated by more than the distance between keys within each group. Different functions should also be distinguished by distinct shapes or texture. The remote should have no redundant keys. The remote control shall have clear legible legends (in a sans serif font and as large as possible) and contrast with the keys and/or background. All labelling shall be durable and long-lasting (for example moulded into casing). Access to the remotes battery compartment should be straightforward but child-proof.

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The remote shall be capable of single-handed operation by either hand, easy to grip and stable if placed on a flat surface. It should be non-slippery, for example by means of a textured finish. Care should be taken to ensure that the directional properties of the communications link from the remote control to the device are as wide-angle as possible. If batteries are supplied, they should provide a minimum lifetime of 12 months with typical remote control use.

4.4. Keyboard input

Key input events from any connected USB keyboard shall be mapped to DirectFB user input events in the same manner as for the standard DirectFB keyboard and linux_input drivers. The effect of this is that the key events for the numeric keypad keys will duplicate the number functions of the remote control whilst the standard number keys will generate key identifiers that can be distinguished. This allows user interaction with the remote control to use a multi-tap text entry method whilst allowing a keyboard to generate both alphabetic and numeric key input directly. Any other input device capable of generating alphanumeric input (such as a remote control providing a full alphanumeric keyboard) shall map alphanumeric keys in the same way. Input devices may use any other key symbols for text input purposes provided that they represent ASCII characters and do not correspond to any of the key symbols listed in section 4.1. Input events for such symbols may use any DirectFB key identifier and modifier values.

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Chapter III
Consumer Device Software Architecture

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter provides an overview of the Consumer Device Software Architecture, and key operational requirements for a YouView device, including message-based communication, and management of system time .

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Design and build a software stack that: follows the principles defined. is capable of delivering the target user experience in terms of stability and performance. meets the operational requirements specified.

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Introduction
This chapter presents an architecture that has been developed in response to a number of requirements and challenges that include: Bringing together broadcast and IP delivery technologies, to ensure effective co-existence. Supporting multiple application frameworks and presentation technologies. Supporting multiple concurrent applications. Integrating components from third party suppliers. Enabling hardware graphics acceleration and making it easily accessible to ensure the best possible viewer experience. Reducing fragmentation of technology in the connected television ecosystem, to maximise availability of content, and reduce content distribution costs. Improving device compliance, to reduce authoring costs for content providers.

Traditional monolithic middleware solutions do not provide a suitable foundation on which to build a solution that addresses all these requirements. Software designs with a single main executable and tight coupling between functional areas often exhibit problems in areas such as memory management, security, resource management, and make it difficult to integrate newer technologies, so a more modular approach is needed. However, the extent of the investment made by Device Manufacturers and software vendors in existing technology is acknowledged and the principle of reusing existing software is central to this architecture. This chapter defines key technology foundations and outlines a solution that reduces the risk and complexity associated with software integration. This includes the use of the Linux operating system, a multi-process model, a message bus for inter-process communication and a set of common opensource libraries.

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3. Software Architecture Overview

3.1. Logical Architecture
The following illustration outlines the Consumer Device Software Architecture.
Platform Software

Platform Configuration

Platform Applications

Content Provider Applications

Content Provider Applications

Application Players / Presentation Engines

Core Device Software

Message Bus Software Component (e.g. Media Playback) Software Component (e.g.DVR) Software Component (e.g. Metadata)

Linux kernel & drivers

Hardware

3.2. Design goals

The architecture has been designed to achieve the following goals: It should be aligned with industry trends. It should run on silicon products that are available in the market now. It should use open-source software where appropriate. It should provide abstraction from underlying implementations at various levels in the software stack. It should allow manufacturers to differentiate their products.

The architecture has the following benefits over a monolithic approach: It allows software components and Applications to be developed in isolation and tested before final integration. It allows for the re-use of existing software components and simplifies the integration of third party software. It supports models where the Platform Operator is able to manage and update Platform Applications and Platform Configurations independently.

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3.3. Device Operating System

Linux has been selected as the Operating System for the device. Linux has been ported to run on a large number of silicon products, and is currently supported by the vast majority of hardware and software vendors in the connected television ecosystem. Porting to new hardware is a relatively simple due to the architecture of the kernel and the features that it supports. The Linux environment provides the following functionality as a basis for the development and operation of the device software stack: Multi-processing. Real-time constraints and priority-based scheduling. Dynamic memory management. A robust security model. A mature and full-featured IP stack.

Linux is deployed on millions of PCs and consumer electronics devices, and the skills to develop and optimise for it are common in the industry. In addition, a wide range of open-source products have been developed for, or ported to Linux. The Linux kernel and core libraries provide facilities for executing and scheduling multiple processes which enables the device to support multiple application frameworks and presentation technologies, and content from multiple sources. This allows applications and other software service components to run in separate operating system processes with appropriate permissions to control access these services and the underlying system resources. This is essential for enabling a wide range of content from trusted and un-trusted sources. It also allows Platform Applications that provide the user interface to be developed and maintained independently without requiring the Core Device Software.

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4. Message Bus
4.1. Message Bus Overview
The primary mechanism for inter-process communication (IPC) for device software components is based on D-Bus, an open-source project from freedesktop.org that provides transport for remote method calls, asynchronous events, and error messages. D-Bus has gained widespread support in Linux based systems, and is used in the majority of desktop and embedded Linux distributions. It was chosen as the IPC mechanism as it supports a suitable range of data types and usage patterns.

4.2. Supported Message Buses

Devices shall be configured with the following message buses: D-Bus System Bus the default bus for Linux D-Bus enabled processes. D-Bus Session Bus used for all services which are exposed to Applications, and configured with specific access controls for Platform and Content Provider Applications.

Devices may be configured with additional Message Buses to support Service Provider or Manufacturer specific features.

4.3. Message types

The following message types shall be supported by the Message Bus and associated libraries. Method calls on interfaces, and signals emitted by objects. Return values from method calls. Errors, and associated codes and data.

Clients may block and wait for the return value, or to provide a callback function to receive the return value asynchronously.

4.4. Error handing

Errors generated by software components on the Message Bus shall be reported using a specific error message type and shall be propagated to clients as exceptions (or error codes where appropriate).

4.5. D-Bus security

The D-Bus libraries provide security features, including policies and access control lists, that are applied to objects, interfaces and methods, and can be used to allow or deny messages, and access to services on the Message Bus. This is managed by assigning permissions to each Application Player instance. For third party applications, the assigned permissions depend on the origin of the application, and are configured using information from the DNS domain and/or signing certificate.

4.6. Message Bus Usage

The Message Bus shall not be used for the transfer of audio and video streams, graphics pixel data or other high bandwidth data transfers. Separate mechanisms are required for high bandwidth transfers as appropriate to the hardware and software provided by silicon vendors, but is outside the scope of this specification.

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4.7. Message Bus C++ Bindings

The device shall support client (proxy) API bindings to D-Bus with the following features: D-Bus method calls from synchronous C++ method calls, which block until a method_return message. D-Bus method calls from asynchronous C++ method calls with method_return message processing handled via a callback. D-Bus signal handling and event dispatch to C++ code. D-Bus error handling and conversion to C++ exceptions. Validation of enumerations.

The device shall support server (adaptor) API bindings to D-Bus with the following features: D-Bus signal emitting from C++ event handling code. D-Bus error generation from to C++ exception and error handling code. Processing D-Bus method calls in the main message dispatcher thread. Processing D-Bus method calls in separate worker threads.

4.7.1. Dynamic D-Bus Objects

The Device shall support D-Bus Objects that represent dynamically created resources (exported to the bus at any time as required). It shall be possible to manage these D-Bus Objects in the following ways: Reference counted - every client that requests use of the resource causes a reference count to be adjusted by the component providing that resource, and the D-Bus Object (and usually the resource itself) will be destroyed when the reference count < 1. Implementations shall ensure that all reference counters associated with a client D-Bus Connection are decremented when that connection is closed. Connections may be closed by the client process or by the D-Bus Daemon in the case where the client process terminates abnormally. Externally managed - components do not keep usage reference counts for these objects, and will usually provide means to explicitly destroy objects.

4.8. D-Bus Specification

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html

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5. Device Operation
5.1. Time
5.1.1. Sources of time
Devices shall support setting the devices clock using the following methods: Parsing of a DVB TDT or TOT received in a broadcast transport stream From a time server using SNTP version 4 as defined in IETF RFC 5905 From a time server using NTP version 4 as defined in IETF RFC 5905

If the device is operating in a mode where broadcast or IP connectivity is not available, sources requiring that connectivity shall be ignored. Devices shall implement non-volatile storage for the last known time, for the purposes of detecting roll-back of time.

5.1.2. Behaviour on boot

At initial boot, devices shall set the system clock to 1 January 2000 00:00 UTC. Once the device is in a suitable state to receive a broadcast signal (if connected), communicate over IP (if connected), it shall enter a time discovery process, until a time source is found that successfully sets the clock.
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5.1.3. Maintenance of time

After a usable time source has been found, that source shall be used to maintain the system clock for the period until the next boot time or until a request to update the time from that source fails.

5.1.4. Broadcast time

Devices shall consider a time value discovered from a broadcast TDT or TOT table valid if it is obtained from a transport stream that carries services present in the devices channel list. Acquisition of broadcast time shall be considered to have failed if no broadcast signal is present or if, after five seconds of monitoring a broadcast transport stream, no TDT or TOT with a valid CRC has been received. When broadcast time is in use, devices shall attempt to resynchronise the system clock at least once every 24 hours.

5.1.5. SNTP
When configured to use SNTP, implementations shall not use a full NTP client to set the time. Note: this specifically excludes the use of ntpdate. An example SNTP client is available in the reference NTP software distribution from ntp.org. Devices shall retry up to 5 times at one-second intervals to each configured server. Acquisition of time using SNTP shall be considered to have failed if no time has been received from a configured server within that time, or if the device does not have IP network connectivity. When SNTP time is configured, devices shall attempt to resynchronise the system clock at regular intervals, with an additional offset of a randomly chosen number of seconds uniformly distributed between 0 and 3599 to add to the configured polling interval in order to prevent bursts of requests to the servers.

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5.1.6. Time zones

The platform software or core device software shall contain one or more time zone definition files in the Linux tz file format. The time zone to use shall be configurable by the Platform Main UI.

5.1.7. Using time information

Stored time values should be in the form of UTC time. When time needs to be presented to a viewer, it shall be converted to local time. Such conversions shall use the configured time zone definition file. This is typically achieved by using the standard Linux localtime() or localtime_r() functions.

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Chapter IV
Consumer Device IP Networking

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter covers the specification and configuration of the core network stack and defines mechanisms for managing the resources available to the devices IP connection. This chapter does not cover hardware requirements and network interfaces (which are covered in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform) or the provisioning of the device with configuration information (which is addressed by Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management).

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Implement the devices core IP network stack in accordance with this chapter.

This chapter is not relevant for: Content Providers Application Developers ISPs

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2. IP Network Stack
2.1. Core specification
Devices shall support IPv4, ICMP, IGMPv3, TCP and UDP. Higher level protocols are specified elsewhere in this chapter. Support for IPv6 will be required at a later date. The IP network stack shall support filtering, prioritisation and measurement of traffic based on protocol, source, destination and originating process.

2.2. IPv4 configuration

Devices shall support both automatic configuration of network interfaces using DHCP and manual configuration. The default shall be to use DHCP. Devices shall allow the following parameters to be configured manually: IP address Subnet mask Default gateway, which should be pre-filled with the first usable IP address calculated from the IP address and netmask (e.g. with an IP address of 192.168.0.4 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0, this field should be pre-filled with 192.168.0.1) DNS server addresses (devices shall allow at least two to be specified) Option to use an HTTP proxy, including proxy server address and port

2.3. Multicast
Multicast shall be fully supported at the Ethernet and IP layers. Both Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) and Any-Source Multicast (ASM) shall be supported. This requires the use of IGMPv3.

2.4. IPv6
Support for IPv6 will be required at a later date. IPv6-capable devices shall support the requirements of the IPv6 Node Requirements contained in the IETF draft update to RFC4294, known as RFC4294bis, with support for Neighbour discovery, Path MTU Discovery, Stub-resolver and DHCPv6. DHCPv6 configuration shall be attempted to obtain DNS server addresses. If this is unsuccessful, IPv4 DNS server addresses shall be used.

2.4.1. Manual configuration

IPv6 capable devices shall allow the following IPv6 parameters to be configured manually: IP address Subnet mask length Default gateway DNS server addresses (devices shall allow at least two to be specified)

2.5. Performance
The IP stack shall be capable of handling a throughput of at least three concurrent 10 Mbps TCP sessions. It is anticipated that content bitrates could range from around 700 kbps up to 10 Mbps for future HD content.

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Devices shall be able to handle an encrypted TLS session with a throughput of 8 Mbps (RC4 cipher) or 4 Mbps (AES128 cipher) without significant impact on the responsiveness of other device functions.

2.6. HTTP profile

Devices shall support HTTP/1.1, as defined in IETF RFC 2616, except as specified below. This profile is a largely a superset of the profile included in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 and includes the features necessary to interact with modern web services.

2.6.1. HTTP Authentication

Devices are required to support extensions to HTTP Authentication as specified in IETF RFC 2617.

2.6.2. HTTP Methods

Devices shall support GET, HEAD, POST, PUT and DELETE methods. Devices are not required to support the use of any other HTTP methods.

2.6.3. Response status codes

Devices shall not prompt the user of a device to make choices and get answers as a result of HTTP status codes. Response status codes shall be as specified in section 17.8.3 "Response status codes" of DTG DBook 7 Part A v1 except that the 201 Created response code shall be considered successful.

2.6.4. Header fields

Devices shall support all HTTP/1.1 headers as specified in IETF RFC 2616.

2.6.5. Cookies
Some web services need to store information locally on the client to establish an HTTP session that spans a number of HTTP requests over a specified period of time. Devices shall support session and persistent cookies via the Cookie request header and Set-Cookie response header as defined by IETF RFC 2109. Devices shall support session cookies for HTTP requests made by all software components on the device. Unless otherwise stated for particular uses of HTTP, session cookies shall be retained until the device next enters standby and then discarded. Devices shall support persistent cookies via the Max-Age directive according to IETF RFC 2109 for all HTTP requests made from presentation engines but not for other uses of HTTP. Persistent cookies shall remain available after the device is restarted and shall survive a power cycle. Devices shall maintain separate cookie stores for holding persistent cookies created by different applications and different presentation engines. Devices shall not accept cookies that have no path attribute. Devices shall accept cookies in the "Netscape" format in order to provide compatibility with older HTTP/1.0 servers.

2.6.6. Timeouts
Except where otherwise stated, timeouts shall be as defined in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 17.12.

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2.6.7. Redirection
HTTP/1.1 3xx redirection response codes shall be supported wherever HTTP is used. This includes requests for adaptive bitrate manifests and segments. Devices shall support chains of at least 5 redirections. Redirection from an http: URL to an https: URL and vice versa shall be supported. Implementations shall detect infinite loop redirections, terminate the infinite loop and report the failure to the component making the request. If a 300 Multiple Choices response code is received and the particular use of HTTP does not provide any means to choose between the representations offered, the response shall be treated as a 302 response if it contains a Location header and considered an error if it does not.

2.6.8. Encodings
YouView devices shall offer at least gzip and deflate encodings in an Accept-Encoding header for all HTTP requests that could return text content including requests for adaptive bitrate manifest files (see Chapter IX IP Content Delivery), requests for timed text subtitle files (see Chapter IX IP Content Delivery) and requests from presentation engines. Devices shall support HTTP responses with a Content-Encoding header containing gzip or deflate. Note: libcurl supports these encodings transparently but this must be enabled by setting the CURLOPT_ENCODING option to an empty string.

2.7. Proxy support

Devices shall support the use of an HTTP proxy for all HTTP requests. This includes any use of HTTP by a bootloader for software upgrade. HTTPS traffic shall use the same proxy, using the HTTP CONNECT method. Separately from the users proxy settings which apply to all HTTP requests, devices shall support use of a specific proxy for accessing A/V content via the device configuration mechanisms. Where such a proxy has been specified, the configured A/V proxy shall be used in preference to the default proxy when requesting A/V content.

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3. IP Resource Management
3.1. Introduction
The devices IP network stack is used for a variety of purposes, some of which are time critical and some of which are not. In addition, the user may have a broadband tariff in which traffic is charged at different rates at different times of day. This section describes how the device manages usage of the IP connection. Three classes of traffic are defined: Time Critical Traffic High priority Background Downloads Low priority Background Downloads

The mapping of individual cases of network use to these classes is outside the scope of this chapter.

3.1.1. Time Critical Traffic

Time Critical Traffic relates to the acquisition of content and data that have been requested by the viewer for immediate use, and is always permitted. This traffic includes: A/V media streaming using any streaming protocol, including IP linear channels Data requests over HTTP from software components and presentation engines.

3.1.2. High priority Background Downloads

High priority Background Downloads are downloads that can take place at any time but may be suspended to maintain the performance of Time Critical Traffic. An example of a download likely to fall into this category would be the download of an application selected from the Platform Main UI.

3.1.3. Low priority Background Downloads

Low priority Background Downloads are downloads that can only take place during a defined time window and may be suspended to maintain the performance of Time Critical Traffic. An example of a download likely to fall into this category would be the download of an asset that the viewer has indicated that they would like to acquire during an off-peak period.

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4. Back-off Mechanism for HTTP Requests

This section specifies a standard back-off algorithm which shall be used when retrying HTTP requests that have failed. The algorithm shall be used in all cases where HTTP requests need to be retried unless otherwise stated. If an HTTP 4xx, 501, 502 or 505 error response is received; devices shall not retry the request and shall deem it to have failed. If an HTTP 500 or 504 error response is received, or the device is unable to establish a connection to the server, the device shall wait for a random period in milliseconds between 0 and the value given by (4^currentRetry * 100) and then retry the request, where currentRetry has the value 1 after the first failure and increments for each failed retry. This algorithm waits up to 400 ms before the first retry, up to 1600 ms before the second, and so on. If an HTTP 503 error response is received and a Retry-After header is present, the device shall wait for the specified period before retrying. If no Retry-After header is present, the device shall proceed as defined for a 500 response above. The maximum number of retries or the maximum total time during which to attempt retries varies depending on the type of request. Unless otherwise stated, background requests shall be retried for up to one hour; foreground requests shall be retried for up to 30 seconds.

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Chapter V
Consumer Device UI Model

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter defines a device UI model for how the user experience provided by a consumer device can be realised. The model supports a federated approach where different parties provide elements of the user experience. It also describes how these elements need to integrate together so as to result in a unified, seamless experience. The model provides a means for the Platform Main UI provider to deploy a common user experience across a range of devices from different manufacturers.

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for : Device Manufacturers Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Device UI Model Overview

The Device UI Model defines four types of application that comprise elements of the overall user experience: Setup. This application is run on the initial install of a device (or after a reset to factory default state action). It steps the user through the minimum number of user settings required to configure the device into a usable state. This is distinct from the Settings application (see below) which allows the user to view and change all available settings. Platform Main UI. This application provides the primary interface that the user interacts with. It will include functionality such as: accessing linear channels, including presentation of schedule information; discovery of on-demand content and portals; app store etc. Settings. This application allows the user to view and change the full range of user settings that govern the operation of the device. Content Provider Application. This type of application is produced by Content Providers and includes VOD portals and other third party services. A successful connected television platform will have a many such applications.

Figure 6 is a simplification of the interactions between these applications:

Figure 6 : Interactions between the different types of application

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3. UI Model Implementation
3.1. Introduction
The Device UI Model supports a federated approach where different parties provide the applications comprising the overall user experience. It also allows more than one party to contribute to the implementation and/or configuration of a particular application to support extension and customisation of the user experience.

3.2. Setup and Settings

The Setup and Settings applications are the responsibility of the Platform Main UI provider to supply. These shall be implemented such that device manufacturers can provide code extensions to support device specific features. Such code extensions shall be provided as a runtime code module (as appropriate for the presentation technology used for these applications) or an XML defined UI layout. The specific detail of these mechanisms is outside the scope of this specification. This approach ensures that a device manufacturer can achieve a high degree of integration with the underlying features of the device whilst maintaining a coherent user experience. Whilst the Setup and Settings applications may differ in user experience, they shall provide views onto the same underlying settings information.

3.2.1. Setup
The Setup application uses a wizard paradigm to step the user through the minimum number of user settings required to configure the device into a usable state.

Figure 7 : Setup

3.2.2. Settings
The Settings application provides the user with access to the full range of user settings within a hierarchical structure. Local Diagnostics functionality aims to help users solve problems of device operation, e.g. check broadcast signal strength, check IP network activity.

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Figure 8 : Settings

3.3. Platform Main UI

The Platform Main UI application is the responsibility of the Platform Main UI provider to supply. This shall be implemented such that device manufacturers and ISPs can configure aspects of the Platform Main UI so as to customise its operation. Such customisation shall be achieved using the configuration mechanism defined in Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management. This results in configuration data being loaded into the Data and Configuration Repository that can be read by a suitably privileged application. The specific detail of such customisation is beyond the scope of this specification, but possible examples include: an ISP specific menu item within the Platform Main UI that launches an ISP application providing customer help; inclusion of device manufacturer branding on screens within the Platform Main UI.

Figure 9 : Configuration of the Platform Main UI

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Platform Main UI features are purely illustrative.

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3.4. Content Provider applications

Content Providers applications are the responsibility of content providers to provide. Such applications will be launched from the Platform Main UI, following selection of the Content Provider application itself or an item of content dependent on the Content Provider application for its successful presentation. Certain Content Provider applications may need to be implemented such that they include UI provider supplied code extensions to manage certain aspects of user interaction, which benefit from being treated in a consistent manner with the Platform Main UI, e.g. presentation of on-screen error dialogues. Such code extensions shall be provided as a runtime code module (as appropriate for the presentation technology used for these applications), referred to as the Platform Main UI Library. The specific detail of this mechanism is outside the scope of this specification.

Figure 10 : Content Providers applications

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Chapter VI
Consumer Device Software Management

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter describes how software updates and configuration settings are managed on the device. Core Device Software is installed and managed by the device manufacturer Platform Software contains the Platform Main UI and can be updated by the platform operator independently of manufacturers and without upgrading the Core Device Software Device configuration files contain parameters used to control aspects of the devices operation without needing to update either the Core Device Software or the Platform Software

This chapter also introduces the logical components : Local Storage Repository (LSR) Software Manager

1.1. Audience
This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Implement a robust mechanism for discovery, acquisition, verification and activation of updated versions of Core Device Software and Platform Software Implement support for the discovery and acquisition of updated versions of configuration files and store the updated configuration on the device

ISPs, to understand the device configuration mechanism and the means by which ISP-specific configuration is supported.

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers Content Providers

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2. Software and Configuration Management

2.1. Overview
Figure 11 shows the relationship between these updatable packages. Platform Software can only be installed on a Core Device Software that is compatible. Device configuration can only be applied to a specific version of Platform Software.

Core Device Software

1:n

Platform Software

1:n

Device configuration

Figure 11 : Relationship between software and configuration on the device

2.2. Core Device Software

The Core Device Software consists of: bootloader(s) the Linux kernel the Linux root filesystem containing libraries and the core device software middleware required to support the operation of the device presentation engine software manufacturer-supplied data a version of the Platform Software compatible with the Core Device Software user interface components and associated assets required for the manufacturer-specific setup and configuration of the device manufacturer default configuration. See section 7.1.1 public key certificates all other native compiled executable code

2.3. Platform Software

The Platform Software is common to all devices and contains no native compiled executable code. The Platform Software consists of: default platform configuration (i.e. the Platform Provisioning File) the Platform Main UI application (including all images and data needed for off-line use) static data files and scripts

2.4. Device configuration

For the efficient operation of the platform, a number of configuration parameters are required. A configuration mechanism is specified in section 7 that allows for configuration parameters to be adjusted by a number of configuration sources. The configuration sources are; The device manufacturer The platform operator

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The viewer's Internet Service Provider (ISP) and The viewer themselves

The logical components that are involved in device configuration are shown in Figure 12. The Local Storage Repository (LSR) represents a repository containing the device configuration and is also queried to get information about the state of the device. The YouView Software Manager (YVSM) interface in Figure 12 is described in this specification and is the interface used to download updated versions of Platform Software and YouView configuration.

YouView
Back-end functionality Client-facing interface

Device
Platform Main UI

Web servers

YVSM Local Storage Repository

Platform Software YouView Config ISP redirect

Web services

Software Manager

Reads config

Updates, merges and applies new config Schedules updates

ISP Discovery Power Manager ISP Config

ISP
Back-end functionality Client-facing interface

Web services

ISP Config

Figure 12 : Architecture for software management

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3. Initial device state

The device shall be manufactured such that it includes a version of Core Device Software. This contains a version of the Platform Software compatible with the Core Device Software so that when the device starts for the first time a version of the Platform Main UI is available. The device shall include a default version of the Platform Software within the Core Device Software.

Core Device Software (updates managed by the manufacturer)

Default Platform Software

Figure 13 . Device software packages

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4. Update in the field

The logical Software Manager component shall support the update of Core Device Software, Platform Software and device configuration files. It shall automatically perform updates over the IP connection using the mechanisms described in this chapter and also provide means to allow updates to be performed manually. In addition to this mechanism the device shall support recovery from USB Mass Storage Device. See Chapter VII Consumer Device Storage Management. Other regulatory requirements and trademark licences may require that the device support additional update mechanisms. The viewer shall not be notified or asked to confirm a software or configuration updates. However, the device settings may include an option through which the viewer can explicitly disable automatic software updates. The device shall not inform the viewer when a software update or configuration update fails.

4.1. Automatically checking for updates

The way in which updates are automatically checked for and acquired shall be modelled using the following concepts.

4.1.1. Concepts to do with scheduling automated updates

4.1.1.1. Distributed Time Windows of time are defined in which tasks shall be performed. Within a Window, a Distributed Time shall be allocated to ensure that the times when devices in the deployed population check for updates and/or start the acquisition of updates is evenly distributed. This is to minimise the peak load on platform and manufacturer infrastructure. 4.1.1.2. Update Window The Update Window is the time period in which updates may be acquired. The Default Update Window is the update window configured by the platform operator. The Update Window will be initialised to be the same as the Default Update Window. 4.1.1.3. Update Time The Update Time is a Distributed Time within the Update Window at which acquisition of an update will commence. 4.1.1.4. Update Acquisition Duration The Update Acquisition Duration represents the amount of time that a typical update acquisition may take, and informs subsequent scheduling rules. 4.1.1.5. Scheduled Update Check Window The Scheduled Update Check Window is a period of time within the Update Window that commences at the start of the Update Window. The duration of the Scheduled Update Check Window is calculated by subtracting the Update Acquisition Duration from the Update Window Duration. 4.1.1.6. Scheduled Update Check Time The Scheduled Update Check Time is a Distributed Time within the Scheduled Update Check Window at which the Software Manager component shall check for the availability of updates and if

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they are available, will set the Update Time to the current time and immediately attempt to initiate their acquisition. 4.1.1.7. Opportunistic Update Check Window The Opportunistic Update Check Window is a period of time immediately preceding the start of the Update Window. The start of the Opportunistic Update Check Window is calculated by subtracting the Opportunistic Check Window Duration from the Update Window start time. During this window the Software Manager component shall not perform update acquisition. 4.1.1.8. Opportunistic Update Check Time The Opportunistic Update Check Time is a Distributed Time within the Opportunistic Update Check Window at which the Software Manager component shall check for the availability of updates but shall not perform update acquisition. 4.1.1.9. Update Check Window The Update Check Window is a period of time commencing at the start of the Opportunistic Update Check Window and ending at the end of the Scheduled Update Check Window.

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5. Core Device Software update

5.1. Overview
Devices shall support upgrading of the Core Device Software over the IP connection. Manufacturers are responsible for implementing a mechanism for secure and reliable update.

5.2. Checking for an updated version of Core Device Software

The Software Manager shall check for updates to the Core Device Software as described in section 4.1.

5.3. Acquiring an updated version Core Device Software

The Software Manager shall acquire an updated version of Core Device Software as described in section 4.1. The method for acquiring an updated version of Core Device Software is manufacturer private. Software images shall be encrypted in delivery and on any public facing servers on which they are hosted. The acquisition function shall allow for acquisition to be interrupted or suspended. When it resumes it shall be able to continue from a partially completed acquisition. The Core Device Software may be divided into separate parts for the purposes of updating.

5.4. Verifying an updated version of Core Device Software

The verification of an updated version of Core Device Software is manufacturer private.

5.5. Installing an updated version of Core Device Software

The installation of an updated version of Core Device Software is manufacturer private. After installing the Core Device Software the device shall check for and if necessary install an updated version of the Platform Software as defined in section 6. Minimum requirements for the installation of the Core Device Software are defined in Chapter VII Consumer Device Storage Management.

5.6. Activating an updated version of Core Device Software

The method used to activate an updated version of Core Device Software is manufacturer private. After a successful activation of the Core Device Software the Local Storage Repository (LSR) shall contain: The manufacturer's name The manufacturer's OUI The device model number The OEM's 3 character vendor ID that makes up the first part of the device registered PNPID Core Device Software compatibility version number Core Device Software version number

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6. Platform Software update

6.1. Overview
Devices shall use the following steps to update the Platform Software. 1. Periodically check for an updated version of the Platform Software 2. If an updated version is available, acquire the updated version of Platform Software 3. Verify the encrypted and signed downloaded Platform Software Image 4. Unpack and install the updated version of Platform Software 5. Activate the updated version of Platform Software for use after the next restart 6. Restart the device Details of each of these steps are provided in the following sections. Devices shall be able to store at least two versions of the Platform Software in addition to any versions of Platform Software provided in the Core Device Software on the device. The device shall only activate a version of Platform Software if it is compatible with the active Core Device Software. This is determined by the Compatibility Version specified in the header of the Platform Software Image. If any of the update steps fail the device shall continue to use the currently activated version of the Platform Software. The device may delete Platform Software versions that are no longer required (except for the last known good version) as a result of an updated version of Platform Software having been activated. Each Platform Software image can be in one of the following states and will move through these states during the process of updating the Platform Software version. ACQUIRING: The device is downloading an updated version of the Platform Software SUSPENDED: The device has suspended the acquisition of the updated version of Platform Software INSTALLED: The Platform Software with a specific version is installed but not active ACTIVE: The currently installed and active Platform Software version. This is the version of Platform Software that is automatically run when the device boots and there can be only one active Platform Software version.

A Platform Software acquisition can also end up in one of the following error states. ACQUISITION_FAILED: The device has failed to acquire, verify and activate the updated version of Platform Software.

6.2. Checking for an updated version of Platform Software

The Software Manager shall check for updates to the Platform Software as described in section 4.1. The device shall check for availability of an updated version of Platform Software by downloading a Platform Software Image Manifest and comparing the metadata in the manifest with the version of the currently installed and active Platform Software and the Compatibility Version supported by the device. The download process is described in section 6.2.1. The device shall then parse the Platform Software Image Manifest to determine if there is an updated Platform Software image is available according to the business rules described in section 6.2.2. The device shall then acquire, verify, install and activate the updated version of Platform software using the process described in section 6.2.3.

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6.2.1. Downloading the Platform Software Image Manifest

The Platform Software Image (PSI) Manifest location shall be formed from a URL template which contains a number of variables. The device shall replace the variables in the URL template with the appropriate configuration values. The variables that form part of the URL template are described in Table 13.
Variable ${baseurl} ${manufacturer} ${model} ${core_software} ${compatibility_version} Description The Base URL of the platform software image availability manifest. The URL encoded name of the manufacturer The URL encoded device model number The version number of the Core Device Software currently installed and running on the device This Compatibility Version advertises the capabilities of the Core Device Software. The serialization format is: [major_version].[minor_version].[revision] Where the major_version and minor_version are 16 bit integers and the revision is an 8 bit integer. The version of the currently installed and active Platform Software. The current policy for accepting updates to the Platform Software. This can be used, for example, to indicate if the device is willing to accept updates as part of a beta programme. Table 13 Platform Software URL Template Variables

${platform_software} ${policy}

Examples of URL template are: ${baseurl}/${compatibility_version}/${platform_software}.xml and ${baseurl}/${compatibility_version}/${platform_software}.xml?oem=${manuf acturer}&model=${model} When downloading the Platform Software Image Manifest, if the HTTP response contains an ETag header the device shall store that ETag in the LSR and include that ETag in an If-None-Match header for all subsequent requests to check for the Platform Software Image Manifest. The device shall take the actions in the following table based on the HTTP response status code returned when downloading the Platform Software Image Manifest.
HTTP Response 200 OK 304 Not Modified Description The manifest file has been downloaded successfully. Occurs when the device presents the server with the ETag of the previous request. The Platform Software Image Manifest hasnt changed since the last time the device requested it. Any other HTTP status code including HTTP redirects and errors. Device action Proceed to the next step in the process of upgrading Platform Software. The manifest file hasnt changed so there is no updated version of Platform Software available for this device.

All other status codes

The device shall deal with any other status codes as described in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking.

Table 14 : HTTP response status codes

The Platform Software Image Manifest HTTP response shall be Content-Type: text/xml.

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The body of the HTTP response shall be the Platform Software Image Manifest in the format described in section 6.2.3. If the device receives a HTTP 200 or HTTP 304 response code from the request for the PSI manifest it shall store the current date and time in the LSR. In the event that a download of the Platform Software Image Manifest fails on five consecutive occasions, the device shall revert to the base URL and URL template configured in the Platform Provisioning File for the next attempt.

6.2.2. Whether an updated version of Platform Software is required

Once the device has successfully downloaded a Platform Software Image (PSI) Manifest it shall parse the PSI manifest and based on the its contents decide if an updated version of Platform Software needs to be acquired, verified, installed and activated. An updated version of the Platform Software needs to be acquired if all of the following conditions are met. The Compatibility Version in the PSI manifest is the same as the Compatibility Version supported by the active Core Device Software The Platform Software version number is greater than the active version of Platform Software The device is not already downloading an updated version of the Platform Software. The device does not already have an installed version of Platform Software that is waiting to be activated.

6.2.3. Format of the Platform Software Image Manifest

The Platform Software Image (PSI) Manifest format is an XML file using the schema http://refdata.youview.com/schemas/PlatformSoftwareImageManifest/2010-10-05

6.3. Acquiring an updated Platform Software Image

The Software Manager shall schedule acquisition of Platform Software updates as described in section 4.1.

6.3.1. Downloading a Platform Software Image

The Platform Software Image shall be packaged using the format described in section 6.7. The device shall download the updated Platform Software Image (PSI) using a HTP/1.1 GET request to the URL provided in the Platform Software Image Manifest. If the download of the PSI is interrupted for any reason the device shall resume the download of the PSI using HTTP byte-range requests.

6.4. Verifying an updated Platform Software Image

Once an updated Platform Software image is available locally the device shall verify that the image is signed by the platform operator, decrypt and install it using the procedures described below. Devices shall verify a Platform Software image using the following steps; 1. Check the preconditions on the plaintext PSID in the Platform Software image (as described in section 6.4.1) 2. Assert that no certificate in the signers certificate chain has been revoked using the CRL packaged with the signed-data of the Platform Software update package. See 6.4.4. 3. Verify that the Platform Software image came from the platform operator by verifying the signature provided as described in section 6.4.3 4. Decrypt the platform software image as described in section 6.4.2

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5. Check the preconditions on the verified PSID as described in section 6.4.1 If any of the verification steps above fail, then the installation of the updated version of Platform Software shall be terminated.

6.4.1. Preconditions of a PSID

The device shall assert the following preconditions on the Platform Software Image Identifier (PSID) and the verified PSID before installing a Platform Software image and making it available for use: 1. Assert the magic cookie is 0xCA, 0xA5 2. Assert the Platform Software packaging format version identifier is 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 3. Assert the required Compatibility Version is equal to the Compatibility Version supported by the Core Device Software 4. Assert the Platform Software image version is greater than the installed and active Platform Software version 5. Assert all 8 bytes of the capabilities section are 0x00

6.4.2. Decryption
TK1 shall be decrypted using the devices Platform Software private key. The Platform Software image shall be decrypted using TK1. The algorithm used shall be AES128-CBC.

6.4.3. Verification
Devices shall calculate a message digest of the signed content and verify the digital signature as per RFC 5652 Section 5.6. Devices shall assert that the Signed-data section (RFC 5652 Section 5) has been signed by the platform operator. The certificate policy term 1.2.826.0.1.7308805.1.1 shall be explicitly present in the signer's certificate. Intermediate certificates shall either have the same policy term or the RFC 5280 defined anyPolicy. Devices shall check the presence of this policy and its chain and if it is not present verification shall fail.

6.4.4. Certificate revocation

The freshest version of the Platform Management CA CRL and the platform operator Authority Revocation List (ARL) shall be included in the CRL component of the signed-data. CRL validation processing shall use a fresh CRL. If the CRL packaged within the signed-data is considered current relative to the next update time in the CRL then validation shall use this CRL for processing certificates.

6.5. Installing an updated version of Platform Software

Once an updated Platform Software Image (PSI) has been successfully downloaded and verified it shall be installed using the following process. 1. Copy the updated version of Platform Software 2. Mark the updated version of Platform Software as ready for activation If the viewer has disabled automatic standby on idle, the device may alert the viewer that the device will enter standby and the software update will take place when no recording or other activity is taking place. The user may be presented with an option to defer the update procedure but not to cancel it.

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6.6. Activating an installed version of Platform Software

Once an updated version of Platform Software is installed, ready to be mounted and used it shall be activated. The device shall activate the updated version of Platform Software by making the changes required so that the next time the device restarts or leaves deep standby the updated version of Platform Software shall be used. All other previously active versions of Platform Software that may be installed shall be marked as inactive. If the activation and restart with the updated version of Platform Software fails, the device shall fall back to the last known good version of the Platform Software and that shall be the active version.

6.7. Platform Software packaging format

The Platform Software image shall be a single signed, encrypted cramfs filesystem image. The Platform Software packaging format describes the format of the Platform Software image downloaded in order to update the Platform Software. The Platform Software update package contains a Platform Software digital envelope and a Platform Software image.

6.7.1. Platform Software digital envelope

The Platform Software digital envelope shall be of type CMS Enveloped-Data with detached content as described in RFC 5652 Section 6.

6.7.2. Platform Software Image

The Platform Software image shall be of type CMS Signed-data as described in RFC 5652 Section 5, with a pre-pended Platform Software Image Descriptor (PSID). It will be encrypted as described in section 6.7.3.3. The Platform Software image shall be of the form:
Item Platform Software Image Descriptor (PSID) { CMS Signed-data } (as per: section 6.7.3.2 and RFC 5652 Section 5)
TK1 (AES-128-CBC)

Offset (bytes) 0x00 0x20

Size (bytes) 0x20 variable

Table 15 : Platform Software image

6.7.3. Platform Software Image Descriptor (PSID)

The Platform Software Image Descriptor (PSID) shall be of the form:
Item Magic cookie Platform Software packaging format version identifier Unused Required Compatibility Version: major version Required Compatibility Version: minor version Required Compatibility Version: revision Platform Software image major version Contents 0xCA, 0xA5 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 undefined Major version (e.g. 0x02) Minor version (e.g. 0x01) Revision (e.g. 0x00, 0x00) Platform Software major version (e.g. 0x02) Size (bytes) 0x02 0x04 0x0A 0x01 0x01 0x02 0x01

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Item Platform Software image minor version Platform Software image revision Capabilities

Contents Platform Software minor version (e.g. 0x01) Platform Software revision (e.g. 0x00, 0x00) 0x00 (all 8 bytes) Table 16 : Platform Software Image Descriptor

Size (bytes) 0x01 0x02 0x08

The Platform Software packaging format version identifier is used to indicate the version of the packaging format used by the Platform Software image. Versions of the Platform Software and the Required Compatibility Version shall be identified by major, minor and revision numbers. The device shall only install a Platform Software if the Compatibility Version is supported by the Core Device Software. The Platform Software image version number will increment with each updated release. The Capabilities item is a reserved section of the PSID which will be used at a later date to indicate the device capabilities which are compatible with a specific version a Platform Software image. Multi-byte fields in the PSID shall be big-endian unsigned integers. 6.7.3.1. Encapsulated Content The eContent section (RFC5652 Section 5.2) of the CMS Signed-data section shall be of the form:
Item Platform Software Image Descriptor (PSID) CramFS image Offset (bytes) 0x00 0x20 Table 17 : Encapsulated Content Size (bytes) 0x20 Variable

The PSID is duplicated in the encapsulated content section since this part of the message is verifiable. 6.7.3.2. Signing The platform operator shall provide a Platform Software signing X.509 (RFC 5280) certificate containing an RSA 2048 bit public key in the SignerInfo section of Platform Software image. The private component of the Platform Software signing certificate key shall be used to compute the signature. The digest algorithm shall be SHA256. The signature algorithm shall be RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5. The SHA256 digest shall be computed over the plain-text Platform Software image. The Platform Software signing certificate and any intermediate certificates up to but not including trust anchor shall be carried in the certificates component of the signed-data. 6.7.3.3. Encryption Manufacturers shall provide the platform operator with one or more key transport keys. Each key transport key (KTK) shall be a 2048 bit RSA public key.

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The private key component of the device KTK shall be stored as a device secret. The platform operator shall generate a new random content encryption key for each distribution of the Platform Software image. The content encryption key shall be a 128 bit key. The Content Encryption Key (CEK) shall be encrypted by the platform operator once for each KTK provided to the platform operator. The packager shall encrypt the CEK with RSAES-OAEP under each of the manufacturer supplied public keys. Each encrypted CEK shall be packaged in a KeyTransRecipientInfo structure. This structure shall use the subjectKeyIdentifier supplied in the OEM public key certificate as the RecipientIdentifier. The Platform Software image will be encrypted using the CEK. The bulk encryption algorithm used shall be AES-128-CBC. The block termination padding algorithm shall be the algorithm defined in RFC 3852.

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7. Device configuration
7.1. Overview
For the efficient operation of the platform, a number of configuration parameters are required. A configuration mechanism is specified that allows for configuration parameters to be adjusted by a number of configuration sources. The configuration sources are the device manufacturer, the platform operator, the viewer's Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the viewer themselves. To enable this, the device configuration contains a set of defined base URL and URL template from which configuration data must periodically be gathered A set of named configuration parameters and the configuration sources that have permission to set each of these parameters is defined by the platform operator. Sources of configuration data are processed in the specific order outlined in section 7.1.1.2 to arrive at a merged database of configuration values. The order in which the configuration sources are applied determines which configuration sources are able to set and overwrite values set by another configuration source. When configuration updates are processed, the access control mechanism described in section 7.2 is used to ensure that parameters are overwritten only where there is permission to do so. This configuration merging operation is repeated when any one of the configuration sources has changed and is successfully downloaded.

7.1.1. Configuration sources

7.1.1.1. Local configuration sources The device has two local sources of configuration: Manufacturer default configuration and Platform operator default configuration.

The manufacturer shall apply its default configuration to the Local Storage Repository before applying any other local or remote configuration. The platform operator default configuration shall be contained in the Platform Provisioning File provided as part of the Platform Software. 7.1.1.2. Remote configuration sources The remote configuration sources used to configure the device and are applied in the order defined here. Platform Configuration is provided on the network by the platform operator at a pre-defined location. This location defines the URI the device uses to check for updates to the platform configuration and download the updated configuration file if one exists. Manufacturer Configuration may be provided on the network by the manufacturer at a pre-defined location. ISP Configuration may be provided on the network by the viewer's ISP if the ISP is a participating ISP. The device uses a single pre-defined URI to check for updates to the ISP configuration and download the updated configuration file if one exists. Redirection or other means allow the file to be served by the ISP themselves. Figure 14 shows how the sources of configuration information are managed and the order in which they are applied to the Local Storage Repository:

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Device Software Platform root certificate Platform Provisioning File

static local configuration sources 1

Applications

config.platform.org 2 Cert Config Local Storage Repository

config.manufacturer.com

Active Configuration

User settings

Cert

Config 3

ispconfig.platform.org 1 Cert Config 4

Legend Yellow circles indicate the order of processing after an update

Figure 14 : Configuration sources and their processing order

7.1.1.3. Viewer and Application Configuration The viewer shall have the ability to change device configuration. These configuration parameters may be set by the Platform Main UI or any other application with the appropriate permissions. When a configuration parameter is retrieved from the Local Storage Repository (LSR) and that value has previously been set by any application other than the configuration update process then the device shall return the configuration parameter value saved by the application. Otherwise the value from the active configuration created by the configuration update and merge process shall be returned. Configuration parameters that are set by an application other than the configuration process shall not be overwritten by configuration updates, Core Device Software updates or Platform Software updates. All viewer settings shall be deleted when the device performs a factory reset. See Chapter VII Consumer Device Storage Management.

7.2. Acquiring updated configuration

Devices shall download updated configuration data using an HTTP/1.1 GET request and the base URL and URL template as described below. If updated configuration is available the response shall be a HTTP/1.1 200 OK response. The body of the HTTP response shall be the XML configuration in the format described in section 7.5. If the configuration has not changed since the last configuration update check the device shall receive a HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified response and the device shall continue to use the last configuration downloaded. If there is no configuration available or the server decided not to configure this device then a HTTP 204 No Content response shall be returned. When the device receives a HTTP 204 response that indicates that no configuration shall be applied to the device for this configuration source. The result of the merge of configuration values in the LSR

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shall not contain previous values from a remote configuration source that has responded with a 204 No Content HTTP response. After a successful download of a configuration from the platform operator the device shall store the ETag in the LSR for use during future configuration updates. If an ETag header was provided with a previous response from a specific configuration source, the device shall add an If-None-Match HTTP header to the request quoting the ETag value for that configuration source. If an ETag is not available from a previous request the device shall send an If-Modified-Since header quoting the date and time at which the last successful download of the relevant configuration was achieved. The device shall not send a request with both If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers. Devices shall check for updated configuration and apply it from all power modes. i.e. Unless the device is physically powered off it shall update the device configuration. Devices shall implement the back-off mechanism for HTTP errors and HTTP redirections as described in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking. Platform configuration updates can change the base URL and URL template of the configuration update service. If a platform or ISP configuration update base URI fails five times the device shall use the base URI of the last successful configuration update. If the base URI of the last successful configuration update fails then the device shall use the base URI provided as part of the default platform configuration. i.e. The Platform Provisioning File. If the download fails due to an authoritative response that the domain name (or a domain name referenced in an HTTP redirect) does not exist, the device shall treat that source as providing an empty configuration file and continue with the configuration update. If the download fails for any other reason (including but not limited to any non-authoritative DNS error, TCP/IP connection error, HTTP 4xx or 5xx response), devices shall treat this as a transient failure and continue to use the most recent successfully-merged configuration file for that configuration source, if one is available.

7.2.1. When to check for configuration updates

The Software Manager shall check for updates to the platform operator and ISP configuration as described in 4.1.

7.2.2. Platform Configuration Location

The device shall check for updated Platform Configuration and download it using a URL constructed from the URL template contained in the LSR. The URL template consists of a number of URL template variables that shall be replaced by the appropriate values. The following table shows the variables that shall form part of the URL template.
Variable ${baseurl} ${manufacturer} ${model} ${core_software} ${compatibility_version} Description The Base URL of the platform configuration check and download. The URL encoded name of the manufacturer The URL encoded device model number The version number of the Core Device Software currently installed and running on the device This identifies the Compatibility Version supported by the Core Device Software in the format: [major_version].[minor_version].[revision] The version of the active Platform Software. The name of the Platform Configuration location that should be checked for an update.

${platform_software} ${config_name}

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Table 18 Platform Configuration URL Template Variables

Examples of the URL template are: ${baseurl}/${manufacturer}/${model}/${core_software}/${platform_software}/$ {config_name} or ${baseurl}/${config_name}-${platform_software}.cms The device shall be configured with a secondary base URI for platform configuration updates and if configuration updates fail using the first base URI the device shall attempt the update using the secondary base URI. When the device checks for platform configuration it shall update the last checked time stored in the LSR. When the device successfully downloads and applies updated platform configuration to the device it shall save the current time in the LSR.

7.2.3. ISP Configuration Location

The device shall check for an updated ISP Configuration and download it using a URL constructed from the URL template definition in the LSR. The URL template consists of a number of URL template variables that shall be replaced with the appropriate values. The following table shows the variables that shall form part of the URL template.
Variable ${baseurl} ${manufacturer} ${model} ${core_software} ${compatibility_version} Description The Base URL of the ISP configuration check and download. The manufacturer name URL encoded The URL encoded device model number The version number of the Core Device Software active on the device This identifies the Compatibility Version supported by the Core Device Software in the format: [major_version].[minor_version].[revision] The version of the Platform Software currently installed and running on the device. The name of the ISP Configuration location that should be checked for an update. Table 19 ISP Configuration URL Template Variables

${platform_software} ${config_name}

Examples of the URL template are: ${baseurl}/${manufacturer}/${model}/${core_software}/${platform_software}/$ {config_name} or ${baseurl}/${config_name}-${core_software}-${platform_software}.cms When the device checks for ISP configuration it shall save the last checked time in the LSR. When the device successfully downloads and applies updated ISP configuration to the device it shall save the current time in the LSR.

7.2.4. Manufacturer Configuration Location

A manufacturer may choose to download and apply manufacturer configuration to the device using the mechanism described in section 7.2 or another mechanism of their choosing. If the manufacturer remote configuration is being applied to the Local Storage Repository then it shall be applied in the order specified in section 7.1.1.2.

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The device may check for an updated Manufacturer Configuration and download it using a URL constructed from the URL template contained in the LSR. The URL template consists of a number of URL template variables that shall be replaced with the appropriate values. The following table shows the variables that shall form part of the URL template.
Variable ${baseurl} ${manufacturer} ${model} ${core_software} ${compatibility_version} Description The Base URL of the OEM configuration check and download. The manufacturer name URL encoded The URL encoded device model number The version number of the Core Device Software currently installed and running on the device This identifies the Compatibility Version supported by the Core Device Software in the format: [major_version].[minor_version].[revision] The version of the Platform Software currently installed and running on the device. The name of the OEM Configuration location that should be checked for an update. Table 20 OEM Configuration URL Template Variables

${platform_software} ${config_name}

Examples of URL template values are: ${baseurl}/${manufacturer}/${model}/${core_software}/${platform_software}/$ {config_name} or ${baseurl}/${config_name}-${core_software}-${platform_software}.cms

7.3. Verifying updated configuration

The platform operator and ISP configuration files shall use the file format defined in section 7.5.

7.3.1. Authentication
Configuration files downloaded to the device shall be signed. Configuration is signed by the organisation that created it using their configuration signing key and packaged with their corresponding certificate signed by the platform operator. The device shall successfully verify the signature, certificate chain and certificate policy before applying the configuration parameters. If verification of the signature fails or verification of the certificate chain fails, the configuration parameters shall not be applied to the device. The certificate policy term for platform configuration 1.2.826.0.1.7308805.1.2 shall be explicitly present in the signer's certificate when verifying platform configuration. The certificate policy term for ISP configuration 1.2.826.0.1.7308805.1.3 shall be explicitly present in the signer's certificate when verifying ISP configuration. Intermediate certificates shall either have the same policy term or the RFC 5280 defined anyPolicy. Devices shall check the presence of the relevant policy when verifying the signing certificate and if it is not present verification shall fail. The signature method is CMS as defined in RFC 5652 with an unencrypted data section and using RSA. The configuration signing certificate shall be identified as the SignerIdentifier, as described in RFC5652 section 5.3. This configuration signing CA certificate shall be provided in the CMS Certificates section.

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7.3.2. Certificate revocation

The device shall assert that no certificate in the configuration signers certificate chain has been revoked.

7.4. Installing updated configuration

When the device determines that a configuration source has changed and has downloaded the updated configuration using the method in section 7.2 the device shall update the configuration database using a process equivalent to that described below: 1. Start a transaction so that configuration updates can be applied atomically to the Local Storage Repository. 2. Initialise the Local Storage Repository with the default configuration taken from the Platform Provisioning File. 3. For each of the last downloaded configuration files for platform, manufacturer and ISP configuration in that order: a. Verify the configuration file is valid using the process described in section 7.3. If verification is successful then for each parameter: i. Update the configuration value in the database with the value from the configuration file. b. If all configuration updates were successful then commit the configuration update transaction, else return the Local Storage Repository to its previous state. c. For all parameters that have changed create a notification of the change.

During a configuration update any applications accessing the Local Storage Repository shall continue to retrieve the previously configured parameters.

7.5. Configuration packaging format

The configuration format is an XML file using the schema http://refdata.youview.com/schemas/config/2010-05-05

7.5.1. Platform provisioning file example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cfg="http://refdata.youview.com/schemas/config/2010-0505" xsi:schemaLocation="http://refdata.youview.com/schemas/config/201005-05 config.xsd" version="1"> <item name="platform.software.name">Platform Software v3.5.2</item> <item name="platform.software.version">3.5.2</item> </config>

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Chapter VII
Consumer Device Storage Management

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter specifies requirements for storage systems integrated into the Consumer Device, and associated data management functions.

1.1. Audience
This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Storage Types
2.1. Writeable storage types
Devices shall support the following writeable storage areas: Writeable data only accessible by the Core Device Software and further restricted on a perprocess group membership basis. Writeable data accessible by Platform Applications, but not accessible by Content Provider Applications. Writeable data accessible by Content Provider Applications. Temporary storage in memory Writeable media data used to store recorded or downloaded content.

HD DVR devices shall also support:

2.2. Read-only software images

Core Device Software and Platform Software images shall be mounted read-only as they are cryptographically signed as part of the packaging and distribution process and must not be altered. These images can be replaced via software update mechanisms described in Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management.

2.3. Storage of permanent data

Permanent data, such as the device serial number and DRM personalisation data, shall be stored in a manner such that it can survive a Factory Reset. Note: By its nature, the majority of permanent data will be subject further storage requirements, for reasons of security and/or privacy.

2.4. Start-up after storage partitions have been cleared

The device shall initiate the process of installation and setup in the event that writable data storage partitions, that should contain valid data for correct operation of the device, are deleted or cleared, for example after a Factory Reset.

2.5. Replacement of integrated storage

For device variants that have user-replaceable integrated storage, once a replacement storage device has been installed, all required data partitions shall be initialised during the subsequent boot process to ensure the device operates correctly. Core Device Software images shall not be stored in user-replaceable integrated storage.

2.6. Backup copies of Core Device Software

The device shall maintain a copy of a previously verified Core Device Software image to ensure correct operation in the event that the version of Core Device Software in use becomes corrupted. At the time of manufacture the device shall contain 2 identical copies of the Core Device Software. The device shall also include a software recovery mechanism that allows the Core Device Software to be installed via the IP Network or USB storage device.

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3. Factory Reset function

The Factory Reset function is expected to be used if the device passes to a new owner, or as a last resort if it has stopped functioning correctly due to data corruption. The Factory Reset function will remove all personal data, configuration and settings, leaving the device in the same state as a new product. The function may offer the viewer the opportunity to preserve recorded content or other media assets.

3.1. Initiating the Factory Reset function

Devices shall support 2 mechanisms for initiating a Factory Reset: Hardware Initiated Factory Reset.

This is initiated by pressing a button or combination of buttons on the front panel of the unit. As no interaction with an on-screen UI is required, this mechanism can be used even if a display is not connected. UI Initiated Factory Reset.

This is initiated by selecting an option in the Settings Menu of the Platform Main UI. This mechanism provides the capability to optionally give the viewer the choice of removing or retaining certain items. The details of controlling access to such a feature or the on-screen warnings to prevent misuse are beyond the scope of this specification.

3.2. Scope of the Factory Reset function

The Factory Reset function does not return the device to the condition in which it was originally manufactured, but puts it into a state as if it had just been manufactured: with the exception that recorded or downloaded AV media stored on the device may optionally be retained. The most recently installed Core Device Software version, including the version of the Platform Software packaged with it, will be retained. Initiating a Factory Reset shall result in a reboot of the device, and the relevant data will be subsequently erased.

3.3. Effect of the Factory Reset function

This is defined in the table in Section 5.

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4. Clear Private Data function

The device shall support a Clear Private Data function that removes certain settings and information about the viewer. This function shall not remove downloaded or recorded content.

4.1. Initiating the Clear Private Data function

The Clear Private Data function can be initiated by selecting an option in the Settings Menu of the Platform Main UI.

4.2. Scope of the Clear Private Data function

The clear private data function is intended to remove any personal, private or sensitive data relating to the viewer.

4.3. Effect of the Clear Private Data function

This is defined in the table in Section 5.

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5. Effect of Factory Reset and Clear Private Data

The table below summarises the requirements of the Factory Reset function and the Clear Private Data function.
Data Broadcast linear channel list Metadata caches and cookies Broadcast schedule data Log files and usage reporting ID Private Settings includes: parental controls and Platform PIN viewer approval(s) for sharing of personal data with content providers Platform managed linear channel lists for IP channels and favourites Device Manufacturer-specific settings (e .g. WLAN password) Downloaded configuration files Platform Software updates Any other data written since the box was purchased except those listed below Linear acquisition bookings Recorded broadcast A/V content Downloaded A/V content DRM licences Platform Application data: permanent cookies, cached data, locally stored files and objects. Note: session cookies will be cleared as part of the reboot associated with these functions. Content Provider Applications and associated metadata Content Provider Application data: permanent cookies, cached data, locally stored files and objects. Note: session cookies will be cleared as part of the reboot associated with these functions. Core Device Software updates DRM personalisation and provisioning keys Device unique ID Factory Reset clear clear clear clear clear Clear Private Data keep clear keep clear clear

clear clear clear clear clear optional optional optional optional

clear private data only keep keep keep keep keep keep keep clear

optional optional

keep clear

keep keep keep

keep keep keep

Table 21: Effect of Factory Reset and Clear Private Data

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Chapter VIII
Broadcast Content Delivery

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1. Chapter Summary
The DTG D-Book specifies the "Requirements for Interoperability" that have been adopted by multiplex operators in implementing digital terrestrial television services within the UK. This chapter complements the functionality described in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 in order to support effective integration of broadcast delivery in a connected television environment.

1.1. Audience
This chapter is relevant to: Device Manufacturers who need to: Implement the necessary support for DTG D-Book functionality including support for MHEG red button services. Implement support for MHEG Interaction Channel. Implement extensions to the MHEG presentation engine to enable the launch of IP-delivered applications from broadcast services.

Content Providers who wish to: understand what support is provided for broadcast content delivery.

Application developers who wish to: launch IP-delivered applications from broadcast services.

This chapter is not relevant to: ISPs

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2. D-Book Compatibility
YouView DTT HD DVR devices shall be implemented in line with DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 and shall support all the functionality required by Section 22.4 (which in turn builds on 22.1, 22.2 and 22.3) including: Support for the Guidance descriptor; section 22.1.3.5.4 Trailer Booking (Green button); section 22.2.3.12 Recommendations; section 22.2.3.6 SD/HD Event Linkage; section 22.3.3.2 MHEG Interaction Channel; section 22.3.5.2 ICEncryptedStreamExtension is not required for launch Audio Description for HD; section 22.3.1.4 Native Bitstream Audio over HDMI; section 22.3.4.4.1 Service Information and Selection: receiving signals from multiple transmitters; multiplex handling; service handling; section 22.1.3 Dynamic switching of audio between stereo and surround sound; section 22.3.1.1 MHEG High Definition Graphics Model Broadcast Record Lists; section 22.4.4

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3. MHEG-5 Extensions
DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 applications that can access content and services over IP. The following extensions allow applications of any type to be launched over IP from a running MHEG application. Note: Only application types supported by the device will be successfully launched.

3.1. Launching IP-delivered applications from broadcast services

The MHEG engine shall support the ApplicationLaunch resident program, which is defined below.
Invocation Resident program Typical Use Description ApplicationLaunch Name ApL Call Fork Never Fork see below Reference

Table 22 : ApplicationLaunch resident program

3.1.1. ApplicationLaunch
Hands control of execution to another application of an arbitrary type. 3.1.1.1. Synopsis ApL( location, [name, value], success ) 3.1.1.2. Arguments
in/ out/ in-out input input input type GenericOctetString GenericOctetString GenericBoolean or GenericInteger or GenericOctetString GenericBoolean output
(Shall provide an IndirectReference to a BooleanVariable)

name location name value

comment Location of the application to run List of name/value pairs to be passed to the application True if the application started successfully, false otherwise

success

Table 23 : ApplicationLaunch arguments

3.1.1.3. Description Causes a new application to be started with the specified arguments. The application to run is specified by the location parameter. A side-effect of the resident program may be that the MHEG engine is stopped (killing the application). In all cases the state of the True Persistent Storage shall not be affected. The resident program takes a variable number of arguments. Zero or more name/value pairs may be present. If any name/value pairs are present, the name/value pairs are used to construct a data set of content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded as specified by section 17.13.4 of HTML 4.01 except that references to IETF RFC 1738 shall be taken as references to IETF RFC 3986, which updates it. This produces a data set of the form name1=value1&name2=value2, where each of the names and values has been percent-encoded after replacing any space characters with +.

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The data set may contain characters that are not represented in the US-ASCII character set; consequently the percent-encoding shall be carried out as specified for characters from the Universal Character Set in section 2.5 of IETF RFC 3986. Characters are assumed to be encoded as UTF-8. For example, the character Latin Capital Letter A With Grave is represented in UTF-8 by the octets 0xC380. In the text representation of MHEG, this character would be written as =C3=80; after percent-encoding this would become %C3%80. The data set is appended to the location, with a ? character as a separator; this forms a URI which references both the application to launch and the parameters to be passed to it. GenericOctetString arguments are treated directly as strings. GenericInteger arguments are converted to strings as decimal integers with no leading zeros. GenericBoolean arguments are converted to the string true if true and to false if false. In any case where an invalid set of arguments is supplied (such as a missing value argument) the resident program call shall fail in accordance with DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 13.10.12. It shall not be possible to launch an MHEG application using this resident program. The location URI shall follow the rules for the use of reserved characters in HTTP URIs as defined in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 18.3.2.5.

3.2. Receiving launch parameters set from non-MHEG applications

The MHEG engine shall support the GetLaunchArguments resident program, which is defined as follows:
Invocation Resident program Typical Use Description GetLaunchArguments Name GLA Call Fork Never Fork see below Reference

Table 24 : GetLaunchArguments resident program

3.2.1. GetLaunchArguments
Retrieves an argument set by another application of an arbitrary type. 3.2.1.1. Synopsis GLA( name, value ) 3.2.1.2. Arguments
in/ out/ in-out input type GenericOctetString GenericOctetString output
(Shall provide an IndirectReference to an OctetStringVariable)

name name

comment Name of argument to be retrieved Value of argument

value

Table 25 : GetLaunchArguments arguments

3.2.1.3. Description Retrieves the value of the named argument. Arguments can be set by applications of an arbitrary type, other than MHEG, when launching an MHEG application.

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The value of the argument is provided to the application as an OctetStringVariable. It is the responsibility of the application to convert this value into another type (using the SetVariable elementary action or one of the type conversion resident programs) if required. If the argument to be retrieved does not exist then the resident program succeeds and the value parameter is a zero length string.

3.3. Feature discovery

The MHEG engine shall respond to the following GetEngineSupport feature strings.
String Standard Short Shall return true for N=0 if the device supports the ApplicationLaunch and GetLaunchArguments resident programs. For other values of N, shall return true if the device supports launching applications whose MIME type=N. Receivers shall consider that MIME type strings are case-insensitive when determining whether a MIME type is supported. Constraint

ApplicationLaunchExtension(N)

ApE(N)

Table 26 : GetEngineSupport feature strings

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Chapter IX
IP Content Delivery

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter covers the ways in which content is acquired and consumed from the IP connection of the set top box. The platform is designed to support four key use cases for A/V media delivery: streaming of non-live content (video-on-demand) streaming of live content download of programmes to local storage close integration of A/V content and user interaction

This chapter does not cover hardware requirements and network interfaces (which are covered in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform) or the network stack requirements (covered in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking) or the provisioning of the device with configuration information (which is addressed by Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management).

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Implement all the content delivery mechanisms described

Content Providers, who need to: Understand the way in which YouView devices handle IP-delivered content Understand the content formats that are supported.

ISPs, who may wish to understand the protocols and mechanisms used by YouView devices to access media content.

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers

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2. Streaming Protocols
2.1. Introduction
This section describes the streaming protocols that are used to fulfil the A/V delivery use cases described in section 1. Specific mechanisms for accessing A/V playback functionality from particular presentation engines is out of scope of this chapter.

2.2. HTTP progressive download

2.2.1. Introduction
HTTP progressive download is a mechanism for streaming video on demand content. It provides a pull model in which the client receives data as required and the server has no knowledge of the state of the device during playback. Devices shall support progressive download streaming of content in both MPEG-2 SPTS and MP4 containers.

2.2.2. Buffering
Devices shall provide buffering to cater for variation in the data rate achieved across the network and to manage the data needed by the media decoders. Two buffers are defined: a decoder feed buffer of a size necessary to ensure that the decoders are never stalled due to the normal variation in the bitrate of the encoded stream and due to any latency associated with reading data from the media buffer. a media buffer into which data received from the network is stored.

The decoder feed buffer shall be held in RAM. Devices shall have at least 20 Mbytes of RAM to allocate to decoder feed buffers for streams that are being decoded there may be more than one at any point in time. Streaming sessions that are paused do not require a decoder feed buffer until they are resumed. The required size of the decoder feed buffer for a particular stream is determined based on stream parameters. The media buffer may be in any form of storage. Devices shall have at least 2 GBytes of storage in total to allocate to the media buffers for streaming sessions there may be more than one at any point in time. An individual streaming session shall not consume more than 90% of the available media buffer space so that it is always possible to have at least two concurrent sessions. Devices shall retain the previous 30 seconds of media in the media buffer to allow for a rapid seek backwards (e.g. to recap a piece of missed dialogue or to see a particular event in a sports match again). Note: the minimum media buffer size specified for a single streaming session allows for around 3 hours of buffering ahead of the current play point at a typical SD stream bitrate. At lower stream bitrates, a greater amount of forward buffering is possible. A defined buffering model is specified to ensure that: the network infrastructure is not adversely impacted by large numbers of clients requesting lots of data at the same time; minimal amounts of data are transferred but not used (for example, if users decide not to continue watching the content after a short period of time). a fast fill mode in which data is buffered as fast as it can be delivered by the network; a managed fill mode in which data is buffered more slowly at a rate not exceeding 1.2x the consumption rate.

To support this, the buffering algorithm has two modes:

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Devices shall use the fast fill mode when the amount of data buffered ahead of the current play point is less than a threshold value which is defined as the size of the decoder feed buffer plus an amount corresponding to 10 seconds of media. When the amount of data buffered is greater than this threshold, the managed fill mode shall be used. This threshold is subsequently referred to as bufferThreshold. The required buffering model is summarised in the following figure:

Figure 15 : Buffering model : bitrate

This results in the buffer occupancy following a curve as shown below:

Figure 16 : Buffering model : buffer occupancy

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When reading data into the buffer, devices shall do so with a single HTTP request. Devices shall not make multiple concurrent connections, nor make multiple short requests for sections of the content. This is so as to minimise the overheads on the server. Where there is a requirement to download content out of order, for example to obtain stream metadata from a point other than at the start, HTTP Range requests may be used. All rate management of the kind described above must be done by the client application reading not more than the required rate of data from the TCP socket. This allows the TCP stack to manage the rate limiting.

2.2.3. Buffer threshold control

Applications can modify the behaviour of the buffering algorithm, specifying whether or not they want the buffer threshold defined in section 2.2.2 to be applied. Where an application requests the threshold algorithm, the algorithm described in section 2.2.2 above applies unaltered. Where an application requests the unlimited algorithm, the device shall not apply any bitrate limit on the incoming data and operates only in the fast fill mode. Where an application requests the fixed algorithm, the managed fill mode is not used and the incoming data is stalled while the buffer occupancy exceeds bufferThreshold.

2.2.4. Starting playback

Applications may initiate buffering of a progressive download stream independently of requesting playback to start. Applications may also monitor the buffer occupancy. These mechanisms allow an application to control when in the buffering process playback should be started. Alternatively, the application may initiate playback directly. In this case, playback shall be started as soon as requirements 1 and 2 below are both met: 1. The quantity and duration of media that has been buffered ahead of the intended start point (referred to as bufferedBytes and bufferedMilliseconds) both exceed the levels needed to supply the decoder feed buffer so that under-run will not immediately occur. 2. One or more of the following conditions applies: o bufferedMilliseconds is greater than 10 seconds. o bufferedMilliseconds extends to the desired end point for playback or to the end of the stream. o The increase in bufferedMilliseconds since playback was requested exceeds the elapsed time since playback was requested by at least 250 milliseconds (note: this condition is equivalent to checking that the average incoming bitrate since playback was requested exceeds the required bitrate for sustained playback of the currently buffered data. The constant additional duration has the effect of buffering more data the closer the incoming bitrate is to the required bitrate). Note: requirements 1 and 2 are independent of each other. Once both are satisfied, playback shall start. Calculation of bufferedMilliseconds is described in section 2.2.11.

2.2.5. Handling buffer under-run conditions

If at any time, a stream is being played and the buffer occupancy is below bufferThreshold as defined in section 2.2.2, any background downloads that are active shall be suspended. This includes the initial start-up phase. Further information on network resource management can be found in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking. Devices may enable background downloads if it can be determined that the download will not affect the operation of the streaming session.

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If the buffer empties entirely and causes an interruption to playback, an underflow event shall be generated but playback must continue when data next becomes available. The algorithm described in Section 2.2.4 shall be used to determine when to resume playback. A higher level software component may use this event to consider whether there is a lower bitrate stream that could be played or to suggest the viewer download the content to watch later.

2.2.6. Random access

Devices shall support random access to any point within the item of content. If the requested position does not fall within a portion of the content that has already been buffered, the device shall close any existing connection being used to acquire the media and shall open a new connection in order to acquire data at the new position. This may result in multiple discontinuous buffered regions being stored. Implementations are permitted to discard previously acquired regions after such a seek. If the requested position does fall within already-buffered data, the device shall begin playing from the new position using the buffered data. If the buffered data is incomplete and data is not already being acquired at the end of the region of buffered data into which the requested position falls, the device shall close any existing connection being used to acquire the media and shall open a new connection to acquire content at the end of that buffered region. In both cases, the rate at which content is downloaded is determined according to whether the download point is less than the bufferThreshold beyond the new play point. To retrieve content from the beginning of a file, devices shall use a simple HTTP GET request. To retrieve content from any other position, devices shall use an HTTP GET request with a Range header indicating the byte range being requested. When resuming acquisition at the end of currentlybuffered data, the Range request shall be open ended. Devices shall handle 200 OK and 206 Partial Content HTTP responses. Note that for a 206 Partial Content response, the byte range and total file size information is returned in the Content-Range header field. For a 200 OK response, the total file size information is returned in the Content-Length header.

2.2.7. Pause behaviour

When a stream is paused (as indicated by a play speed of zero), devices shall immediately pause the presentation of the media. If an application has set the unlimited buffering algorithm, the device shall continue buffering. Otherwise, the device may continue to buffer content for a short period until the buffer occupancy reaches bufferThreshold, at which point it must close the connection to the server. When resuming a paused stream where the connection has been closed, the device shall establish a new connection and request data to continue from the end of the buffered region extending from the playback position.

2.2.8. Loss of connection

If during streaming the devices connection to the server is lost, it shall attempt to re-establish the connection and request the remaining data following the standard back-off algorithm specified in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking using the timeout period for a foreground request.

2.2.9. Trick modes

Devices are not required to support playback of content obtained by HTTP progressive download at speeds other than x1. Devices may allow playback at other speeds for content that has already been downloaded into local storage. Devices shall not download content from the network at rates greater than x1.2, other than as described in section 2.2.2.

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2.2.10. Mapping time offsets to byte positions

When streaming an MPEG-2 transport stream, the device needs additional information in order to allow for random access into the stream. Three mechanisms are defined that allow the device to map times to byte offsets: using an index file, as described in Section 2.2.10.2 below using a stream average bitrate value, as described in Section 2.2.10.3 below using only information contained within the stream itself, as described in Section 2.2.10.4 below

The choice between these methods is made according to Section 2.2.10.1. MP4 files can carry the necessary indexing information internally. Seek functionality shall be made available by the device where this information is present at the start of the file. 2.2.10.1. Selecting a mechanism for time to byte mappings The information needed to map from time to byte offset can be signalled through the use of the X-BytesPerSecond and X-IndexFileLocation headers in the HTTP response from the server or provided by an application. If the X-IndexFileLocation header is present the device shall retrieve the index file and use the Index File based timeline (see section 2.2.10.2). If there is a X-BytesPerSecond header, but no X-IndexFileLocation header then the device shall use the Known Bitrate timeline (see section 2.2.10.3). The Known Bitrate timeline shall also be used where an application has provided information about the true duration of the stream and the device is able to determine the content length in bytes. In all other cases, devices shall use the No Timeline method (see section 2.2.10.4).

The HTTP headers described here shall be observed whether they appear in a 302 response or in the response that delivers the content. 2.2.10.2. Index file timeline Where the index file timeline approach is used, the X-IndexFileLocation shall be set in the HTTP response. The value of this header shall be an http or https URL from which an index file as specified below may be obtained. The device shall retrieve the index file from the URL specified in the X-IndexFileLocation header. To allow efficient parsing by the device of the index file a binary format is used. The file consists of a series of samples. Each sample has a byte offset, as a 64 bit unsigned integer and a time in milliseconds, from the start of the file, as a 32 bit unsigned integer. The byte position should correspond to the start of a transport stream packet that represents a suitable random access point but this is not guaranteed. The last sample in the file contains the size of the file in bytes and the total duration of the media in milliseconds. All integers are encoded most significant byte first. File ::= NumOffsetSamples [OffsetSamples] LastSample NumOffsetSamples ::= uint32 OffsetSamples ::= [OffsetSamples] Sample Sample ::= BytePosition TimeValue BytePostion ::= uint64 TimeValue ::= uint32 LastSample ::= FileSize MediaDuration FileSize ::= BytePosition

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MediaDuration ::= TimeValue NumOffsetSamples indicates how many Samples there are. It does not include the LastSample, which must always be present. Devices should store this file in a convenient structure to allow them to: determine current playback time from the current position within the file find the nearest sample to a time for seeking within the file

Devices shall support index files up to 256kbytes in size (containing up to 21 thousand samples). To determine the current position (tcurrent, in milliseconds) during playback, a device shall use the PTS value of the most recently presented video frame (PTScurrent) and a previous PTS value (PTSref) of a video frame for which the media time (media_timeref) is known, as follows: tcurrent = (PTScurrent PTSref) / 90 + media_timeref. If the stream does not contain video, the PTS values of audio access units shall be used instead. Note: the previous known reference point may be the start of the file, in which case media_timeref will be zero. To determine the byte offset to seek from a time value a device shall determine the closest sample to the time value in the index and use the byte offset associated with that sample. For seeking, devices shall not attempt to interpolate between samples, as the samples are intended to indicate random access points within the file where decoding can start. Where the seek position is between random access points, devices shall decode the media from the previous random access point but present decoded media only from the requested seek position. To determine the duration of the stream, the device shall use the MediaDuration entry in the LastSample of the index file. 2.2.10.3. Known bitrate timeline Where the known bitrate timeline approach is used, the X-BytesPerSecond header is present in an HTTP response or the application has provided sufficient information for the stream bitrate to be 6 calculated . The value of the X-BytesPerSecond header is a positive integer, which indicates the average bitrate of the file in bytes per second. To determine the current position during playback, devices shall use the same approach described in section 2.2.10.2. To determine the byte offset to seek to from a time value a device shall calculate the required offset as brequired = trequiredBytesPerSecond/1000 and then round this to the nearest transport packet (188 bytes). To determine the duration of the stream, the device shall obtain the size of the file in bytes from the Content-length: or Range: header from the server and calculate the time corresponding to the end of the file as duration = bytes1000/BytesPerSecond. 2.2.10.4. No timeline method Where no external means of mapping between time and byte position is available, devices shall use PCR and PTS information from the stream as follows. To determine the current playback position (tcurrent, in milliseconds) a device shall use the PTS value of the most recently presented video frame (PTScurrent) and the PTS value of the first video frame in the stream (PTSstart), as follows: tcurrent = (PTScurrent PTSstart) / 90. If the stream does not contain video, the PTS values of audio access units shall be used instead. To determine the duration of the stream, the device shall obtain the first and last PCR values from the stream (PCRstart and PCRend respectively) and calculate:
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In this case, the bitrate figure is derived from the content duration and the information from the Content-Length HTTP header.

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duration = (PCRend PCRstart) / 27000. To calculate the byte offset to seek to (brequired) from a time value (trequired), a device shall calculate the required offset as: brequired = trequiredbytes/duration. These calculations may require that the device download a portion of the stream from the start and/or the end in order to acquire the necessary PCR or PTS values. When reading a PCR from the end of the stream, devices shall request data 25 Kbytes at a time working backwards until a PCR is found. For streams with bitrates of less than 2 Mbps, one 25 Kbyte chunk should be sufficient to retrieve the final PCR. Devices shall download at most ten chunks; if no PCR is found in that amount of data, there is an error in the stream.

2.2.11. Calculating duration of buffered data

In order to determine the duration of media currently buffered for an MPEG-2 transport stream, devices shall monitor data entering the buffer and observe PCR values. The duration of buffered data (bufferedMilliseconds, in milliseconds) can be calculated as: bufferedMilliseconds = (PCRbuffer / 300 PTScurrent) / 90 where PCRbuffer is the latest PCR value present in the buffered data and PTScurrent is the PTS value of the most recently presented video frame (or audio access unit if there is no video). If the media is not playing, the duration of buffered data is calculated simply as: bufferedMilliseconds = (PCRbuffer PCRstart) / 27000.

2.2.12. Cookies
The media playback client is not required to store persistent cookies. Session cookies shall be retained for at least the period of time over which a particular media asset is being obtained. In any event, cookies shall be discarded when the device next enters standby. The store of cookies for the media playback client shall not be shared with any other use of cookies on the device.

2.2.13. Caching
Devices are not required to cache any media content between progressive download sessions. Any caching that is performed by a device shall conform to the requirements of HTTP/1.1 and shall be transparent. Devices shall not use any cached data in place of content obtained from the server unless it can be confirmed as being up to date. For the avoidance of doubt, an attempt to access progressive download content shall always fail if the server cannot be reached at the time playback is attempted.

2.3. Adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP

2.3.1. Introduction
Devices shall support adaptive bitrate streaming of A/V content. The streaming mechanism involves using A/V media encoded at different bitrates and divided into segments. The client makes requests for individual segments based on the buffer occupancy and incoming bitrate. In this chapter, only transport stream-based adaptive streaming is specified. Adaptive bitrate streaming is invoked when the URL results in the retrieval of a document with the MIME type video/vnd.3gpp.mpd. The manifest file format is based on the 3GPP MPD, and it is expected that this will be compatible with the output of the MPEG DASH standardisation activity.

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The algorithms for selecting the bitrate of media to download will need to change as the UK IP networks evolve and may also need to vary between content provider. The bitrate switching decisions will therefore be devolved to software that can be updated. The switching decisions will be influenced by the current buffer state as well as preferences indicated by the application. YouView intends to extend this specification to include Fragmented MP4 based content once the output of industry standards organisations working in this area, such as MPEG and the DTG is known. It is envisaged that the manifest and transport stream requirements currently specified will be compatible with any future version of this specification, however additional features may be supported if these are specified in other standards. These additional features are therefore not required for launch.

2.3.2. Manifest file format

The manifest file is a Media Presentation Description as specified in section 3.1 of OIPF Release 2 Specification HTTP Adaptive Streaming, which shall be used subject to the following amendments: <Representation> elements shall have the group attribute set to 0. Partial representations shall not be used.

The constraints listed in section 3.2 of OIPF Release 2 Specification HTTP Adaptive Streaming shall apply. Additionally, the following limitations apply: The ProgramInformation element can be ignored. Any TrickMode element present can be ignored. Devices are not required to support more than one Period.

If the media segments are encrypted, the ContentProtection element will be present. For example, for media protected by Marlin would include a ContentProtection element with schemeIdUri="urn:dvb:casystemid:19188.

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2.3.3. Example manifest file

An example manifest is shown here: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <MPD xmlns="urn:3GPP:ns:PSS:AdaptiveHTTPStreamingMPD:2009" minBufferTime="PT10S"> <Period start="PT0S" segmentAlignmentFlag="true" bitStreamSwitchingFlag="true"> <Representation bandwidth="5000000" mimeType="video/mpeg" startWithRAP="true"> <SegmentInfo baseURL="http://dummy.bbc.co.uk/test/media/high/" duration="PT4.0S"> <InitialisationSegmentURL sourceURL= "http://dummy.bbc.co.uk/test/media/init.ts"/> <Url sourceURL="00000"/> <Url sourceURL="00001"/> <Url sourceURL="00002"/> <Url sourceURL="00003"/> <Url sourceURL="00004"/> <Url sourceURL="00005"/> <Url sourceURL="00006"/> </SegmentInfo> <ContentProtection schemeIdUri="urn:dvb:casystemid:19188"/> </Representation> <Representation bandwidth="1400000" mimeType="video/mpeg" startWithRAP="true"> <SegmentInfo baseURL="http://dummy.bbc.co.uk/test/media/low/" duration="PT4.0S"> <InitialisationSegmentURL sourceURL= "http://dummy.bbc.co.uk/test/media/init.ts"/> <Url sourceURL="00000"/> <Url sourceURL="00001"/> <Url sourceURL="00002"/> <Url sourceURL="00003"/> <Url sourceURL="00004"/> <Url sourceURL="00005"/> <Url sourceURL="00006"/> </SegmentInfo> <ContentProtection schemeIdUri="urn:dvb:casystemid:19188"/> </Representation> </Period> </MPD>

2.3.4. MPEG-2 transport stream encapsulation format

Adaptive bitrate content delivered in MPEG-2 transport stream fragments shall be formatted in accordance with section 4.1 of OIPF Release 2 Specification HTTP Adaptive Streaming, subject to the following amendments: References to codec specifications within OIPF shall be regarded as referring to the relevant areas of this chapter

2.3.5. Fragmented MP4 encapsulation format

Not required for launch. For information work is currently being undertaken in industry standards organisations including the DTG and MPEG.

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2.4. Live streaming using UDP

This section describes a set of features supporting streaming of live content. An alternative approach for live streaming is to use the adaptive bitrate streaming mechanisms defined in section 2.3.

2.4.1. URL formats

Live UDP streaming is initiated using a content URL in one of the following forms: 1. A direct reference to a UDP-delivered multicast stream using a URL of the form: udp://[[source_address]@]multicast_address:port_number Where a source address is specified, this indicates use of Source Specific Multicast. See section 2.4.2.

2.4.2. Multicast streams

Devices shall support Any Source Multicast (ASM) and Source Specific Multicast (SSM). Devices shall not issue IGMPv3 membership reports requiring a filter-mode of EXCLUDE with a non-empty source-list. IPv4 multicast joins shall be performed in accordance with IGMPv3 (RFC 3376). This is backwards compatible with gateways that support only IGMPv2. To assist with specific interoperability problems, devices shall support a configuration option to force the use of IGMPv2. At the application level, devices shall support SSM, regardless of whether IGMPv3 was used to join the group. Where SSM is requested by an application, devices shall not pass multicast packets originating from sources other than the one specified. Note: this feature is provided as standard by the Linux network stack via the normal IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP socket option.

2.4.3. UDP encapsulation

Devices shall support UDP encapsulation of MPEG-2 transport streams as specified in ETSI TS 102 034 section 7.1.2.

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3. Content Download
Functionality described in this section is not required for launch.

3.1. Introduction
Devices shall support background downloading of content. Devices shall maintain a queue of content to download. There may be low priority items in the queue, which may only be downloaded during a configured background download window, and high priority items, which may be downloaded at any time. The handling of these different classes of download, as well as other IP resource management constraints, is defined in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking.

3.2. HTTP content download

Content download over HTTP shall be performed as an HTTP GET. The download manager shall support suspending and resuming downloads. If a download is suspended for more than 30 seconds, the device shall close the connection to the server. When resuming a download for which the connection has been closed, the device shall make a new HTTP GET request with a Range header to continue the download from the point it left off. No more than four concurrent downloads shall be active at once. In the event of a download failure, devices shall follow the standard back-off algorithm specified in Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking using the timeout value for background requests.

3.3. Storage of downloaded content

Downloaded assets shall be stored and indexed separately such that multiple application level playlists that include common assets (e.g. a branded sting) do not require multiple copies of the shared asset to be downloaded and stored.

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4. Content Formats
4.1. Codecs
IP-delivered A/V content may use any of the codecs specified in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform. It is expected that the majority of streamed content will use H.264 for video and HE-AAC for audio. Devices shall observe aspect ratio and AFD signalling when presenting streams delivered over IP.

4.2. MPEG-2 single program transport stream

Devices shall support MPEG-2 single program transport streams (SPTS) as defined in ISO/IEC 13818-1. Transport streams shall contain a valid PAT and PMT. Only one program may be listed in the PAT. Other SI and PSI tables may be included in the stream. If present, they shall be ignored.

4.2.1. Access services

Transport streams may contain a DVB subtitle stream and/or an audio description track. If present, these shall be handled according to viewer preferences in the same manner as for broadcast transport streams. Subtitles in multiple languages may be present in a single stream. By default, devices shall select the subtitle track whose language matches the currently configured preferred subtitle language. Timed Text subtitles may also be used in conjunction with transport stream based content (see section 4.4).

4.2.2. Encryption
Transport streams may be encrypted using AES with a 128-bit key using the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) encryption mode with the residual termination block process as specified in IEC 62455 section 6.4.6. Devices shall support decryption of an AES-encrypted transport stream at bitrates up to at least 10 Mbps. Further detail on encryption formats, including details of how encrypted media links to specific content protection mechanisms via IEC 62455 Key Stream Messages and PMT descriptors is defined in Chapter X Content Protection : AV Over IP. In the case of transport streams segmented for adaptive bitrate streaming, devices may assume that a stream reconstructed from a valid sequence of segments will meet the same requirements for decryption as a conventional non-segmented stream. Note: this may require the content to be created with suitable alignment of the traffic keys in the constituent adaptive bitrate representations.

4.2.3. MIME type

When serving content contained in an MPEG-2 transport stream, servers shall indicate the MIME type to be: video/MP2T

4.3. MP4 container

Devices shall support content encapsulated in the ISO Base Media File Format ISO/IEC14496-12 (2005) and the MP4 file format ISO/IEC14496-14 as profiled below.

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MP4 files conforming to this specification shall have the major brand 'avc1', indicating MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264) video content. Devices are not required to support MP4 files containing other video codecs. MP4 files contain a number of 'boxes'. The following table lists boxes relevant to this chapter, either because they must be parsed by the device, or because they are mandatory in the base specification. This table forms part of the normative specification.
Box type 'ftyp' 'moov' Name File Type Box Movie box Usage Indicates file format. Contains header information for the media in the file. SHALL support v0. MAY support v1. Identifies a track within the file. SHALL support v0. MAY support v1. Only version 0 box SHALL be used. Device requirements Shall recognise 'avc1' brand. Restrictions for content production Shall mark MP4 files with 'avc1' as the major brand. For constraints for progressive download, see section 4.3.1 Only version 0 box SHALL be used.

'mvhd' 'trak' 'tkhd' 'mdia' 'mdhd' 'minf' 'hdlr' 'vmhd' 'smhd' 'dinf'

Movie header box Track box Track header box Media box Media header box Media information box Handler reference box Video media header box Sound media header box Data information box Specifies the location of the media samples.

SHALL support v0. MAY support v1.

Only version 0 box SHALL be used.

MAY be ignored as restrictions in this specification prevent external location of media. MAY be ignored as restrictions in this specification prevent external location of media.

SHALL only contain the 'url ' box as specified below.

'url '

Data entry url box

Specifies the location of the media samples using a URL or indicates they are within the current file.

Flags on this box SHALL be set to 0x01 and the url string empty, indicating the track is within the current file.

'stbl' 'stts' 'ctts'

Sample table box Decoding time to sample box Composition time to sample box Sample description table

'stsd'

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Box type 'stsz' 'stz2'

Name Sample size box Sample size box (compact version) Sample to chunk box Chunk offset box

Usage

Device requirements

Restrictions for content production

Where possible this box should be used in preference to 'stsz' to save space. This is likely to be the case for audio tracks.

'stsc' 'stco'

Indicates the location of chunks of samples within the file using a byte offset from the beginning of the file. Indicates the location of chunks of samples within the file using a byte offset from the beginning of the file.

SHALL support both files containing this box or 'co64'.

'co64'

Chunk offset box(64 bit offsets)

SHALL support both files containing this box or 'stco'.

This box SHALL be used when a non-fragmented file exceeds 4GB in size. It SHOULD NOT be used otherwise due to the space overhead introduced.

'stss'

Sync sample box

Where present the device SHALL use the information from this box to assist in seek operations. However if the box is empty or missing seek SHOULD still be performed, but decoding after the seek may take a number of frames to resume.

'avc1' 'avcC'

AVC sample entry box AVC configuration entry box MPEG4 bitrate box AVC parameter sample entry box Sample to group box Sample group description box Movie extends box Movie extends header box Indicates that the file contains fragments. Gives the total duration of a fragmented file. SHALL support v0. MAY support v1. This box SHALL be present and indicate the total duration if the mvex box is present in a file. Only version 0 box SHALL be used.

'btrt' 'avcp'

'sbgp' 'sgpd' 'mvex'*

'mehd'*

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Box type 'moof'*

Name Movie fragment box Track fragment box

Usage Contains header information for a fragment. Contains header information for the specified track within the fragment.

Device requirements

Restrictions for content production This box SHALL NOT exceed 1MB in size.

'traf'*

'tfhd'* 'trun'*

Track fragment header box Track fragment run box Movie fragment random access box Track fragment random access box Contains sample duration and sizes for the track. Contains a list of random access points in a fragmented file. Contains the random access points for the specified track. SHALL support v0 and v1 boxes. This is to allow support for files over 4GB, which need 64 bit offsets. This box SHALL be the last box in all fragmented files.

'mfra'*

'tfra'*

Where fragments contain more than one randomly accessible sample, this box SHALL refer to at least the first randomly accessible sample in each fragment. The media SHOULD use a v0 box where the file size is less than 4GB. This box SHALL be present and SHALL be the last box within the mfra box.

'mfro'*

Movie fragment random access offset box

Helps a device obtain the 'mfra' box when this is placed at the end of the file. Table 27 : MP4 boxes

Boxes marked with an asterisk (*) in the table above are only used in MP4 files containing fragments. MP4 files shall be constructed with the 'moov' box after the ftyp box at the start of the file and before any sample data. Media data for the tracks used by the MP4 file shall be contained within the file itself. Devices are not required to support references to tracks in external files. Edit lists shall not be used to alter playback. If an 'edts' box is present it shall be empty. Note that some boxes have two versions 0 and 1, and in many of these cases the v1 is to allow 64-bit timestamps to be used. The Timescale value set in the 'mvhd' shall be chosen appropriately by the content author to prevent the need to use 64-bit timestamps, and as such, v1 boxes shall not be used where indicated in the table. Any boxes not listed here may be ignored by the device. Content providers shall not insert boxes not listed here if a device ignoring those boxes would materially affect the presentation of the media to the viewer. Note that 'mdat', 'free' and 'skip' boxes are not listed above as they are technically not parsed or interpreted by the device.

4.3.1.

Progressive download

When content is intended for consumption through progressive download then there are additional requirements on the formatting of the media. These are to avoid lengthy delays at startup and to enable to device to seek efficiently within the file.

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Additionally files for progressive download should use fragmentation where necessarily to ensure that the following recommended size limits are not exceeded: 'moov' box total size shall not exceed 4MB. Ideally it should not exceed 1MB. This is to avoid excessive delays at startup while the 'moov' box loads. 'moof' boxes shall not individually exceed 1MB. This is to avoid the device running out of media to play while downloading a 'moof'. Fragments (that is 'moof' plus 'mdat') shall not exceed 4GB. This avoids the need for 64 bit offsets to be used.

Within the media data samples shall be interleaved such that no more than one second of data is required in the devices buffer for the current samples for all streams in the file to be available, as illustrated for a file containing one audio and one video track in the following figure:
moov Audio Video Audio Video Audio Video max 1s max 1s max 1s max 1s max 1s max 1s

Figure 17 : MP4 interleaving

Devices shall play files which do not meet this recommendation for limits on 'moov' and 'moof' sizes, the viewer experience may be impaired through lengthy startup times and possible pauses.

4.3.2. MIME type

When serving content contained in an MP4 file servers shall indicate the MIME type to be: video/mp4 or audio/mp4 The audio/mp4 type shall not be used for files containing video. The video/mp4 type may be used for files containing only audio.

4.3.3. Access services

Subtitles for MP4-based content will be provided as separate Timed Text files (see section 4.4).

4.3.4. Encryption
MP4 content may be encrypted using AES with a 128-bit key. Devices shall support decryption of downloaded or progressively-downloaded MP4 content encrypted according to the Continuous Media Profile (PDCF) defined in section 7 of the OMA DRM Content Format specification version 2.1. Other encrypted MP4 formats, including an encryption mechanism for MP4 content that is part of an adaptive bitrate stream may be added in future.

4.4. Timed Text subtitles

Subtitles for VOD content may be provided as a TTML/DFXP Timed Text subtitle file as defined by http://www.w3.org/TR/ttaf1-dfxp/

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This format allows subtitles to be used with any media format and also allows the same subtitle file to be used for other platforms (for example, delivery to PC clients).

4.4.1. Profile
Devices shall support at least the following features of the TTML specification:
#backgroundColor #cellResolution #color #content #core #extent #fontFamily #fontSize #fontStyle #fontWeight #layout #length-cell #length-em #length-integer #length-percentage #length-pixel #length-positive #length-real #lineHeight #nested-div #nested-span #origin #padding #presentation #showBackground #structure #styling #styling-chained #styling-inheritance-content #styling-inheritance-region #styling-inline #styling-nested #styling-referential #textAlign #textDecoration-under #timeBase-media #time-clock #time-clock-with-frames #time-offset #time-offset-with-frames #timing #writingMode-horizontal-lr

Note: in TTML, a requirement for a principle feature implies support for any subset features. For example support for #fontFamily implies #fontFamily-generic and #fontFamily-non-generic.

4.4.2. Format
TTML subtitles will be provided as one XML file per selectable programme. The device shall support UTF-8 encoding for XML files.

4.4.3. Acquisition
The device shall download the necessary file specified by the application using an HTTP request. TLS shall be supported.

4.4.4. Rendering
4.4.4.1. Resolution The device shall render subtitles to a graphics plane with a resolution of at least 1280x720, irrespective of the media resolution. 4.4.4.2. Anti-aliasing The device shall provide rendering support for at least 8 colour tones per principle colour. 4.4.4.3. Timing Times within the subtitle file shall be interpreted relative to the start of the media asset being presented.

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Subtitles shall be rendered within 0.04 seconds of the specified time. 4.4.4.4. Background colour fill When rendering a span with a tts:backgroundColor, the filled area shall cover the full line height as specified by the tts:lineHeight attribute. Where text with tts:backgroundColor applied at the span level, the filled area shall extend the width of a space character to the left of the first rendered character on each line and to the right of the last rendered character on each line.

4.4.5. Control of subtitle presentation

If subtitles are enabled on the device prior to playback, the relevant subtitle file shall be downloaded at the same time as buffering is started for the accompanying media, and displayed as soon as possible. If subtitles are not enabled when playback starts, the subtitle file shall not be downloaded unless subtitles are subsequently enabled. If subtitles are then enabled, the file shall be downloaded and the subtitles shall be displayed as soon as possible thereafter. For content streaming, once loaded, a subtitle file is kept until the corresponding media is no longer being played.

4.4.6. Layer
Subtitles shall be rendered either through the screen manager and DirectFB or on a separate 8bpp graphics plane, below main graphics plane as described in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform.

4.4.7. Number of colours

The device shall support rendering at least 32 different combinations of foreground and background colour in a single subtitle file. Colour specifications that include an alpha value shall be supported, allowing for semi-transparent subtitles and backgrounds.

4.4.8. Formatting defaults

Devices shall comply with the default formatting specified in the TTML standard, with the following exceptions. 4.4.8.1. Cell resolution By default the cell resolution shall be set to 40 columns, and 16 rows. On a 1280x720 display, this provides cells of 32 pixels wide, and 45 pixels high. 4.4.8.2. Region If no region is specified, the device shall adopt the following features: tts:backgroundColour: transparent tts:origin: 1c 1c tts:extent: 38c 14c tts:textAlign: centre tts:displayAlign: after

This defines a region that is 14 text lines (cells) high, and starts one cell into the screen. The displayAlign property ensures that all subtitles lines are vertically aligned to the bottom of the region by default.

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4.4.8.3. Font tts:fontFamily: Tiresias Where the platform does not support the font specified, it shall default to Tiresias. sansSerif and default shall always be mapped to Tiresias. Other font support is implementation dependent. tts:fontSize: The default font size shall be 0.9c. This corresponds to a height of 41px at a 1280x720 resolution.

4.4.8.4. Paragraph tts:color: white tts:lineHeight: If no lineHeight is specified, it shall be set to 1c so that the background boxes of adjacent lines touch without the need for padding.

4.4.8.5. Span tts:backgroundColor: black

4.5. Audio elementary streams

Devices shall support MPEG-1 layer III audio elementary streams with or without ID3 tags.

4.5.1. MIME type

When serving MPEG-1 layer III audio elementary streams, servers shall indicate the MIME type to be: audio/mpeg

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Chapter X
Content Protection : AV Over IP

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter defines the way in which rights-sensitive A/V content can be protected and managed both in distribution and whilst it exists in the consumer device. The chapter defines a range of content protection mechanisms that will give content providers choice about what they employ; i.e. to only need to use something that is sufficient given the nature of the content being delivered.

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Implement the content protection mechanisms

Content Providers, who need to: Understand the security and utility provided by each of the content protection mechanisms Configure back-end systems to interface to the content protection mechanisms Encrypt content according to the support encryption formats

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs

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2. Introduction
This chapter provides detailed specifications for a range of content protection options. The options vary both in complexity for the content provider and the level of protection needed. Content providers may use any of the supported options according to their needs. Section 3 describes a set of content protection options to be provided by the core media playback function of the device. In addition, specific presentation environments may provide additional mechanisms for content protection. The table below summarises the features and capabilities of the different content protection options.
Offline playback of downloads Configurable output controls Authentication

Support for HTTP caches

Content encrypted on server

Content encrypted in delivery

Hardware decryption

Protection mechanism 3.1 No protection (Simple HTTP) 3.2 Simple device authentication 3.3 Device authentication using MS3 3.4 Device authentication and transport encryption (TLS streaming) 3.5 Device authentication and encrypted content delivery (Marlin MS3) 3.6 DRM protected content (Marlin Broadband) N Y Y Y

N N N Y

N N N N

Y Y Y N

N/A N/A N/A N

N N Y N

N N N N

Y Y Y Y

Table 28 : Content protection summary

A number of sequence diagrams are shown in this chapter. These provide a simplified view of the interactions that take place with each mechanism. To illustrate the interactions between applications and the underlying media playback functions of the device, a component labelled MediaRouter is shown to which represents the applications interface onto the media playback implementation.

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3. Content protection mechanisms

3.1. No protection
3.1.1. Description
The simplest form of content delivery provides no protection. The YouView device is not authenticated and there is no encryption of the content. In this scheme, a direct reference to the media is passed by the application. For example, for content streamed over HTTP, the high level interactions would be as follows:

Figure 18

Note: Interactions between the MediaRouter and Media decoder objects shown are illustrative only. This content delivery mechanism does not provide means to change the state of output control mechanisms from the default specified in section 3.9.

3.2. Simple device authentication

3.2.1. Description
This mechanism provides authentication of the YouView device to the content provider for an interaction which takes place prior to the start of media playback between an application running on the YouView device and a content providers server. This mechanism can be used to deliver a media URL securely into the device for use in the same way as described in section 3.1. When the media URL is subsequently used to request the content, the request will be made in the clear so the content URL could be captured. Content providers can use techniques such as timelimited tokens to limit the usefulness of URLs captured in this way.

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Note: One-time URLs cannot be used with this mechanism because the URL may be used more than once if the player needs to seek within the stream.

Figure 19

3.2.2. Detailed specification

In this mechanism, the secure interaction with the content providers server uses the capabilities of the application player to set up a secure connection. The mechanism for this will vary depending on the particular application player or presentation engine being used. The player makes a TLS connection to the server requested by the application and performs client authentication if requested by the server. For full details of the requirements for TLS server and client authentication for requests made from presentation engines, refer to the relevant presentation engine chapters. Since the media playback element of this mechanism is exactly the same as the basic case of no protection, this content delivery mechanism does not provide means to change the state of output control mechanisms from the default specified in section 3.9.

3.2.3. Compliance and robustness requirements

When this mechanism is used the private key for client authentication shall be protected to the same 7 degree as required by the Marlin Robustness rules .

Part of the Marlin Client Adopter agreement, available from http://www.marlin-trust.com/downloads/agreement

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3.3. Device authentication using MS3

3.3.1. Description
This mechanism provides authentication of the YouView device to the content provider, allowing the content provider to reveal parts of the contents location only to genuine YouView devices. It does not include encryption of the content itself. In addition, the request made to obtain the content will be sent in the clear so the content URL could be captured. Content providers can use techniques such as one-time or time-limited tokens to limit the usefulness of URLs captured in this way.

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Note: Interactions between the MediaRouter and Media decoder objects shown are illustrative only.

3.3.2. Detailed specification

In this mechanism, a compound URI is passed by the application. The compound URI includes an https: URL for an MS3 service (the S-URL), together with a URI template for an unencrypted delivery mechanism with which to obtain the content (the C-URIT). The format of the compound URI is specified in section 3.4.2 of the Marlin Simple Secure Streaming (MS3) specification version 1.0. Note: YouView devices are not required to support triggering of MS3 by an Action Token or by an MS3 Manifest File. When presented with a URI of this type, the implementation shall behave as described by the MS3 specification. In summary, when starting to buffer content: 1. The implementation first makes a secure connection to the MS3 service with client authentication. Server authentication shall be performed using the platform-specified bundle of HTTPS root certificates.

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2. The server responds with a Stream Access Statement (SAS) which can include an authenticator element to be substituted into the media URL and which also includes a set of output control requirements to be met whilst the content is being played. The implementation forms a URL for the content (the C-URL) using the C-URIT and the authenticator. The content is streamed using the C-URL as if it had been provided directly by the application. For the period that the content is being presented, the output control mechanisms shall be configured to satisfy the output control requirements provided by the SAS within the context of section 3.9. The SAS and the buffered data shall be retained until the application ends the streaming session or selects a different source. If the device cannot retrieve or process the SAS, an event shall be raised. Where the SAS contains an authenticator, it is possible that this authenticator may expire after a period of time. If, after the initial request for the content, the device needs to make a new request (for example to perform a seek, to resume after pausing or to re-try after a transient error condition), the implementation shall first make one attempt to use the existing C-URL for the new request. If this fails, the implementation shall return to the MS3 service for a new SAS.

3.3.3. Compliance and robustness requirements

The Marlin Compliance and Robustness rules shall apply to the implementation of this mechanism. Note: As content is not encrypted in this delivery mechanism, the applicable requirements here relate primarily to the do not store flag, the output restrictions and the handling of the TLS client certificate.

3.4. Device authentication and transport encryption

3.4.1. Description
This mechanism allows content to be delivered through an encrypted transport using TLS. In addition, the YouView device is authenticated to the content provider. The content does not appear in the clear in the home network but would be stored unencrypted on the content providers servers. Implementations are not required to support, and content providers should not attempt to deliver, content at bitrates exceeding 2.5 Mbps (for AES-128 encryption) or 4 Mbps (for RC4 encryption) using this method. It is expected that on many devices, software-only implementations will be able to meet this requirement.

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Note: Interactions between the MediaRouter and Media decoder objects shown are illustrative only.

3.4.2. Detailed specification

In this mechanism, an https: URL is passed by the application. The device makes a TLS connection to the server specified in the URL and performs client authentication if requested by the server. Server authentication shall be performed using the platform-specified bundle of HTTPS root certificates. Once the secure connection has been established, the implementation shall proceed from then on as if a simple http: URL had been used. If the device cannot establish a secure connection (for example because the server refused to accept the client authentication offered), an event shall be raised. This content delivery mechanism does not provide means to change the state of output control mechanisms from the default specified in section 3.9.

3.4.3. Compliance and robustness requirements

For content delivered in this manner: Devices shall not provide any means for the user to export the content from the device. Content shall not be stored on the device other than as required temporarily for buffering purposes. The private key for client authentication shall be protected to the same degree as required by the Marlin Robustness rules.

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No robustness rules apply to the handling of session keys or decrypted content with this scheme. As such, this mechanism aims to provide secure delivery of content into the device but provides limited protection against a determined attacker able to tamper with the device.

3.5. Device authentication and encrypted content delivery

3.5.1. Description
This mechanism allows encrypted content to be delivered, with the keys and output control information being provided through a secure, authenticated connection. The content does not appear in the clear in the home network or on the content providers servers.

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Note: Interactions between the MediaRouter and Media decoder objects shown are illustrative only.

3.5.2. Detailed specification

In this mechanism, a compound URI is passed by the application. The compound URI includes an https: URL for an MS3 service (the S-URL), together with a URI template for an unencrypted delivery mechanism with which to obtain the content (the C-URIT). The format of the compound URI is specified in section 3.4.2 of the Marlin Simple Secure Streaming specification version 1.0. Note: YouView devices are not required to support triggering of MS3 by an Action Token or by an MS3 Manifest File. When presented with a URI of this type, the implementation shall behave as described by the MS3 specification. In summary, when starting to buffer content:

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1. The implementation first makes a secure connection to the MS3 service with client authentication using. Server authentication shall be performed using the platform-specified bundle of HTTPS root certificates. 2. The server responds with a Stream Access Statement (SAS) which can include an authenticator element to be substituted into the media URL and which also includes a set of output controls to be applied whilst the content is being played. 3. The implementation forms a URL for the content (the C-URL) using the C-URIT and the authenticator. 4. The content is streamed using the C-URL as if it had been provided directly by the application. 5. Before the content is decoded, the media decryption function is configured to decrypt the content using the keys obtained from the SAS. 6. For the period that the content is being presented, the output control mechanisms shall be configured to satisfy the output control requirements provided by the SAS within the context of section 3.9. Note: Steps 3 and 4 can proceed in parallel with steps 1 and 2 if C-URIT does not require an authenticator. This will result in improved start up times. The SAS and the buffered data shall be retained until the application ends the streaming session or selects a different source. If the device cannot retrieve or process the SAS or at any point during presentation of content, a content identifier is encountered for which a content key is not available, an event shall be raised. Where the SAS contains an authenticator, it is possible that this authenticator may expire after a period of time. If, after the initial request for the content, the device needs to make a new request (for example to perform a seek, to resume after pausing or to re-try after a transient error condition), the implementation shall first make one attempt to use the existing C-URL for the new request. If this fails, the implementation shall return to the MS3 service for a new SAS. The C-URL may reference any supported streaming protocol specified in Chapter IX IP Content Delivery, including multicast delivery. Devices shall provide hardware-accelerated decryption for content delivered in this manner. Bitrates up to the maximum required for unencrypted content shall be supported.

3.5.3. Compliance and robustness requirements

The Marlin Compliance and Robustness rules shall apply to the implementation of this mechanism.

3.6. DRM protected content

3.6.1. Description
This mechanism uses the functions of the Marlin Broadband DRM system to protect the content covering use cases such as: Content downloaded for playback at a later time Multicast IP linear channels requiring stored licences

The DRM system can also be used for streaming use cases if desired. Two modes of licence acquisition are supported: 1. Licence acquisition prior to playback, initiated as a result of interactions between an application running on the device and an external web store. The location of the web store may be known to the application (in the case of a VOD store app) or may be obtained from information held in the metadata system (in the case of IP linear channels). 2. Licence acquisition on demand, triggered by an attempt to play protected content for which the device does not already have a valid licence.

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For the period that the DRM-protected content is being presented, the output control mechanisms shall be configured to satisfy the output control requirements specified in the DRM licence within the context of section 3.9. Implementations shall comply with the Marlin Broadband Delivery System Specification v1.2. Implementations shall provide a Full Implementation as defined by the Marlin Broadband Network Service (BNS) specification v1.2 with support for BNS Extended Topologies. Devices shall indicate their support for BNS Profile and BNS Extended Topologies in the manner described in section 6 of the BNS specification.

3.6.2. Client architecture

Figure 23 shows a simplified view of the client device (a more detailed view is provided in section 3.8).

Figure 23 : Simplified architecture

There are three components: Player App. This is the user-facing application through which the user selects content to watch or download and through which payments are made. This will generally be a service specific application but could be the UI in the case of IP linear channels. DRM. This represents the system component that encapsulates the licence acquisition functions of the DRM system, providing a high level interface to the application. It stores and manages licences. MediaRouter. This represents the interface onto the components that play back media content.

3.6.3. Licence acquisition

In the Marlin DRM system, licence acquisition is initiated via an action token which is acquired from a web service. For YouView, action tokens are only acquired by applications and there is no provision for token acquisition by the lower level components directly, as shown in Figure 24:

Figure 24 : Licence acquisition

3.6.4. Example usage

The following sequence diagram shows a simple example using Marlin to protect a VOD streaming session. In this case, licence acquisition is being initiated in advance of playback. A similar process would be used for downloaded content.

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Firstly, the application performs a transaction with the web store and obtains an action token. This is passed through an interfaced labelled Drm where the DRM client acquires a licence from the licence server. After this process is complete, the application may optionally make an advance check that the DRM system now has a licence that will permit playback. When playback is requested, the implementation underlying the MediaRouter and Drm interfaces shown obtains the information required and begins decoding the media.

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Note: Interactions between the MediaRouter and Media decoder objects, and between the Drm object and the MediaRouter are illustrative only. These interactions are implementation dependent.

3.6.5. Management of licences, nodes and links

Devices shall be able to store DRM licences. Licences are required for three types of content: Downloaded content stored on the device Recordings made from protected linear IP channels and stored on the device Content not stored on the device (e.g. content to be streamed or downloaded in future)

Devices shall check all stored licences at least once every 24 hours against the following conditions. If neither condition 1 nor condition 2 applies to a licence, it shall be retained, otherwise it shall be deleted.

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1. The licence has a urn:marlin:core:node:attribute:expiration-date attribute that represents a date in the past, or 2. The licence satisfies all of the following conditions: a. it is not required by any content stored on the device, and b. it has a urn:marlin:core:node:attribute:expiration-date attribute that is more than 30 days in the future or has no such attribute, and c. it was acquired more than 30 days ago

Note: This ensures that where a licence relates to content that is stored on the device, the licence will not be discarded until the content is deleted or the licence expires. It is implementation dependent whether licences associated with content stored on the device are stored with the media or in a separate database. Implementations must take account of the following scenarios: Downloads may reference multiple content IDs (e.g. for different tracks) but would normally have a single licence covering them. A recording may reference multiple content IDs and multiple licences (e.g. for different temporal parts of the recording). Multiple recordings may require the same licence or licences (e.g. if they were made from the same IP channel on the same day).

Note: This means that to store licences with the content, licences may have to be copied as they may relate to multiple assets stored on the device. Where content formats allow DRM licences to be embedded and delivered to the device within the media, devices shall search any such licences first, prior to searching elsewhere to find a valid licence for a requested operation. Devices shall check stored nodes and links at least once every 24 hours and discard any that have a urn:marlin:core:node:attribute:expiration-date attribute that represents a date in the past.

3.6.6. Compliance and robustness requirements

The Marlin Compliance and Robustness rules shall apply to the implementation of this mechanism.

3.7. Personalisation
Marlin clients must be personalised in order to interact with Marlin licence servers and to handle Marlin licences. Devices shall implement a mechanism that ensures that the device is personalised before any third party application runs for the first time. Any requirement to access a remote server to perform this task shall be included as part of the devices software upgrade procedure.

3.8. Device architecture for content protection and DRM

The following figure shows an architectural model of the content protection and playback functions of the device. The components shown in red are expected to be provided by the DRM provider. Components in green are lower-level hardware or firmware components, typically specific to the particular SoC being used. The remaining components are shown in blue. The media playback control function interacts with the MS3 client in order to obtain any authenticator required to access content. See section 3.3. The Marlin Broadband and MS3 client uses secure key management functions to protect its secrets. The media streaming function also requires secure key management capabilities to implement client authentication for TLS streaming. See section 3.4.

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Applications

Adaptation

Control

Output controls Demux & decrypt Media streaming Secure key box TLS auth for 3.4 Buffering MP4 TS Decode Display

Marlin client

MS3

Hardware AES, RSA etc.

Hardware A/V decoders

Display hardware

Figure 26 : Architectural model

3.9. Output controls

3.9.1. Requirements
Devices shall support the following output control mechanisms: HDCP CGMS-A Disabling of analogue outputs

The set of output controls in force at any point in time shall be sufficient to meet the requirements of all A/V presentation sessions that are active. The set of output controls shall be evaluated each time presentation of content begins or ends. As specified in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1, HDCP shall be applied at all times unless the user has specifically configured the device to apply HDCP only where explicitly signalled. Note: This is due to the long periods of black picture that result when the HDCP state is changed. For all other output control mechanisms, the mechanism shall not be applied unless it is explicitly required for content that is currently being presented. Where a content licence imposes constraints on analogue outputs that the device does not support, the analogue outputs shall be disabled. When disabling the analogue video outputs, devices shall act as follows: If a digital video output is active, the analogue output shall be disabled with no other feedback provided.

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If no digital display device is active, the video shall not be presented on the video plane and an on-screen dialogue shall be presented to the viewer.

Note: Chapter II Consumer Device Platform requires that the device has no analogue HD outputs.

3.9.2. Mapping from Marlin output control parameters (informative)

The Marlin specifications define a set of output control parameters that can be applied to Marlinprotected content: Encryption plus non-assertion (EPN) Copy control information (CCI) ImageConstraintToken (ICT) DigitalOnlyToken (DOT) Analogue Protection System (APS)

The following tables indicate how these parameters map to the outputs required on YouView devices. This section is informative. In the event that the mappings defined here conflict with the requirements of the Marlin Compliance Rules, those rules take precedence. The following table applies to video or audio-video content:
Output HDMI Output control mapping HDCP ON if (CCI != 0 || EPN == 0) HDCP may be disabled in other cases if the user has specifically configured the device to disable HDCP where not required. Output disabled if (APS == 0 && DOT == 0) CGMS-A bits defined in EN 300 294 to be set according to the CCI value as follows: CCI Copy control not asserted (00) No more copy (01) Copy one generation (10) Never copy (11) SPDIF bit 12 0 0 1 1 bit 13 0 1 0 1

Analogue SD video

In PCM mode, output restricted to maximum 2-channel, 16-bit, 48 kHz for all Marlin protected content. In bitstream mode, no restriction. SCMS set according to CCI value as follows: CCI Copy control not asserted (00) No more copy (01) Copy one generation (10) Never copy (11) SCMS Copy allowed Copy prohibited Copy once Copy prohibited

Analogue audio

No restriction. Table 29 : Output controls for video or audio-video content

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The following table applies to audio-only content:

Output control SPDIF Mapping In PCM mode, output restricted to maximum 2-channel, 16-bit, 48 kHz for all Marlin protected content. Devices shall output only PCM audio on SPDIF if (CCI != 0 || EPN == 0). If (CCI == 0 && EPN == 1), bitstream output may be used if so configured. SCMS set according to CCI value as follows: CCI Copy control not asserted (00) No more copy (01) Copy one generation (10) Never copy (11) Analogue audio No restriction. Table 30 : Output controls for audio-only content SCMS Copy allowed Copy prohibited Copy once Copy prohibited

3.10. Protected content formats

3.10.1. MPEG-2 transport stream
As defined in Chapter IX IP Content Delivery, the encrypted content format for MPEG2-TS content is IEC 62455. The Marlin Broadband Transport Stream format specifies how Marlin-specific information is carried in an IEC 62455 compliant transport stream. Encrypted streams intended for use with MS3 (see section 3.5) or Marlin Broadband (see section 3.6) shall comply with the requirements of the Marlin Broadband Transport Stream Format specification version 1.0.2. Devices are not required to support Silent Rights or Preview Rights URL signalling. Encrypted streams shall use a single Initialisation Vector throughout. Devices shall be able to present seamlessly BBTS encrypted content in which the service_CID_extension or program_CID_extension changes mid-stream, provided that the device has already acquired content keys for the new content identifier resulting from the change. This shall be supported both for the case where the content key can be found in the Marlin Broadband licence store, and where it can be found in the MS3 SAS. Seamless presentation is not required if the serviceBaseCID changes. Streams shall be constructed such that at any point in a stream where the service_CID_extension or program_CID_extension changes, there is no change to the current traffic key. Devices can expect that the current traffic key obtained before the content ID change will continue to decrypt the stream after the ID change up to the next key change. Devices shall be able to decrypt from the first encrypted packet when commencing playback, provided that streams contain a valid ECM located between the start point and the first encrypted packet.

3.10.2. MP4
YouView shareholder companies are involved in industry standardisation activities including DTG, OIPF, 3GPP, DECE and MPEG and take the work of these groups into account when deciding on content formats. These standardisation activities still have some way to go in agreeing a common approach to MP4 encryption, particularly where support for both progressive download and adaptive bitrate streaming is required. This specification specifies an encrypted MP4 format for progressive download only. YouView will address the requirement for an encrypted, fragmented MP4 file format at a later date. Devices shall support MP4 content encrypted using the OMA PDCF format.

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Encrypted streams intended for use with MS3 (see section 3.5) or Marlin Broadband (see section 3.6) shall comply with the requirements of the Marlin Specification version 1.0.3. Devices are not required to support Silent Rights or Preview Rights URL signalling. Devices shall support embedded licences.

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Chapter XI
Content Acquisition And Management

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter specifies the support for content acquisition and management to be built into a YouView device, and introduces the logical components : Linear Acquisition, Acquisition Manager, and Local Media Library. Section 2 specifies the consumer device content acquisition and management architecture. This has been designed so as to allow the content acquisition functions in the consumer device to be as autonomous as possible due to their mission-critical nature. This will also enable maximum re-use of existing, tried-and-tested code for both programme acquisition from linear channels (as found in existing DVR products) and media asset download over IP. Section 3 specifies the support for programme acquisition from linear channels (e.g. DVR enabling functionality) to be provided by the Linear Acquisition component. This includes support for series bookings and the use of alternative instances when a recording attempt fails. Section 7, specifies the support for background acquisition of programmes from linear channels, which can be used to reduce (or mitigate) the level of IP traffic by pre-acquiring programmes that are likely to be viewed, either by the audience as a whole, or in a more advanced exploitation by the specific household in which the device is installed. Section 4 specifies the support for download over IP to be provided by the IP Downloader component. In a non-IP-connected DVR device the programme acquisition from broadcast function can operate on the assumption that it controls the only way to acquire content. Hence all of the decision-making logic (or business rules) can be restricted to this function alone and internalised. The same is true of a media asset download over IP function in an IP-only device. However, when the two acquisition functions are both present the business rules need to span both functions. For example, if the DVR fails to acquire a particular broadcast instance it may be better to initiate an IP download than wait to acquire a repeat transmission several days later. The Acquisition Manager component encapsulates business rules that cannot be internalised to the individual components providing acquisition capability. This is specified in section 5. Section 6, specifies the support for managing and accessing acquired content to be provided by the Local Media Library.

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2. Introduction
2.1. The conceptual model
Figure 27 shows the system components involved in the discovery, acquisition and consumption of programme content on the device. This chapter describes the functionality of the components in the acquisition subsystem and the relationships between them.

Application
Acquisition Manager
PushVOD record list retrieval Business rules Download booking interface

Broadcast metadata

IP metadata

Linear Acquisition

IP Downloader

Media Router

Local media library metadata

Local Media Library

Acquisition

Consumption

Figure 27 : Discovery, acquisition and consumption architecture overview

Note 1: To simplify Figure 27 some links have been omitted. Note 2: In addition to the Platform Main UI, other device services may also interact with components of the acquisition subsystem.

2.2. Acquisition subsystem architecture

2.2.1. Linear Acquisition
This component handles the acquisition of content from linear channels over both broadcast (DVB) and IP. It provides means for booking acquisitions and querying the list of pending acquisitions. The component houses the logic required to provide series bookings and utilise alternative instance information in the case of acquisition failure.

2.2.2. IP Downloader
This component handles the download of content over IP.

2.2.3. Acquisition Manager

The Acquisition Manager has three roles in the acquisition architecture: It provides means by which an application can book IP downloads. It implements the Push-VOD for IP mitigation functionality described in section 7. It implements business rules to minimise viewer interaction in acquisition scenarios.

2.2.4. The Local Media Library

The Local Media Library contains all programme content that has been acquired by the device both via broadcast and IP.

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3. Linear Acquisition (DVR)

3.1. Overview
The Linear Acquisition component shall satisfy the functional requirements defined in this chapter and in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1.

3.1.1. Tuner management

Due to the finite number of tuners in the device, the number of concurrent recordings that can be made by the Linear Acquisition component is limited. Conflicts can arise if bookings are created which require more tuner resources than are available for linear acquisition. The Linear Acquisition component is required to deal with conflicts which may be detected: At the time of booking (Booking Conflict) see section 3.3.2 As a result of changes to the schedule since booking but before acquisition (Post-booking Conflict) see section 3.4.5 At the point of acquisition (Acquisition Conflict) see section 3.5.1

The Linear Acquisition component shall be able to take control of tuners as necessary to meet its acquisition obligations. Other software components that need access to tuners shall work around the behaviour of the Linear Acquisition component and under some circumstances are required to make use of tuner resources controlled by the Linear Acquisition component.

3.2. Bookings and Scheduled Recordings

The Linear Acquisition component shall keep track of the acquisition requests that it accepts and shall logically represent this list using two structures: Booking A request to acquire one or more events (see 3.2.1). Contains descriptive metadata about the Booking along with the priority level and an identifier (CRID or event locator) supplied at booking time. A Booking may have zero or more Scheduled Recordings associated with it. A Scheduled Recording describes a specific acquisition attempt and will be linked to either an event in the linear schedule or to a time window on a linear service.

Scheduled Recording

3.2.1. Types of Booking

There are five different types of Booking that the Linear Acquisition component shall accept. These types require different identifiers to be included as part of the booking request:
Type Event Programme Series Collection Timer Mandatory ID Event locator Programme CRID Series CRID Collection CRID Service locator Record from a linear service between two times specified in the Booking. Table 31: Types of Booking Description Acquire the linear event with the provided event locator. Take the first opportunity to acquire a linear event with the provided Programme CRID. Take the first opportunity to acquire any linear events with the provided Series CRID (subject to rules in section 3.4.3).

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Figure 28 shows how the different types of Booking will be represented in the logical model defined at the start of section 3.2. Event Bookings will have a single Scheduled Recording which in turn is associated with a schedule event. Programme Bookings will have up to one Scheduled Recording associated with them at any given time. The Scheduled Recording will be created when an event with the appropriate programme CRID has been located in the schedule. Series Bookings will have zero or more Scheduled Recordings associated with them. The number of Scheduled Recordings will be dependent on the number of events with the Series CRID (from the Booking) in the current linear schedule. Timer Bookings will have a single Scheduled Recording which in turn is associated with a specific time window on a particular linear service.
:Event Booking :Programme Booking :Series Booking :Timer Booking

-Booking Reference

0..1

-Booking Reference

0..*

-Booking Reference

-Booking Reference

:Scheduled Recording

:Scheduled Recording

:Scheduled Recording

:Scheduled Recording

1 1

-Event Locator

1 1

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1 1

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-Timer Reference

:Schedule Event

:Schedule Event

:Schedule Event

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Figure 28 : The types of Booking

3.2.2. Managing Scheduled Recordings

The Linear Acquisition component shall manage the Scheduled Recording(s) associated with each Booking independently. This allows the resolution process for Programme and Series Bookings (as described in sections 3.4.2 and 3.4.3) to be repeatedly executed as a self-contained activity. However, this means that more than one Scheduled Recording could be associated with the same Schedule Event. To handle this at the various points in the acquisition chain: Scheduled Recordings with the same event locator shall be treated as a single virtual 8 Scheduled Recording for the purpose of detecting Booking and Acquisition conflicts. When queried, the Linear Acquisition component will return all Scheduled Recordings separately, even if they have the same event locator meaning that the Platform Main UI will need to filter the resulting list in order to provide a coherent de-duplicated view of which Events will be acquired. At the conclusion or failure of acquisition every Scheduled Recording associated with the acquired Schedule Event shall be updated in isolation.

3.2.3. Booking sources

The Linear Acquisition component will process Bookings from several sources in the system:
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The Platform Main UI application i.e. user Bookings A Record List function

The virtual Scheduled Recording shall have priority equal to the highest priority Scheduled Recording with that particular event locator.

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A platform specified Push-VOD function

The types of Booking that each of these functions can make is restricted as shown in Table 32.
Type Programme Booking Event Booking Series Booking Timer Booking Viewer Table 32: Booking types mapped to Booking sources D-Book Broadcast Record List Platform managed Push-VOD

3.2.4. Booking priorities

In order to manage Bookings from multiple sources the Linear Acquisition component shall observe a priority system. The priority level of a Booking is used to aid the resolution of recording clashes i.e. where the number of concurrent recordings exceeds the acquisition capabilities of the device: At the time of booking (Booking Conflict) see section 3.3.2.1 As a result of changes to the schedule since booking but before acquisition (Post-booking Conflict) see section 3.4.5 At the point of acquisition (Acquisition Conflict) see section 3.5.2

The priorities (with 1 being the highest) are described below: 45

Priority level Highest 1 26 Lowest 7 11 Use Viewer Booking D-Book specified record list Booking Platform specified Push VOD (see section 7) Booking Table 33: Booking priority levels

The priority of the Booking also affects how any associated Scheduled Recordings are managed alongside live or time-shifted consumption of linear TV/radio (see section 3.5.1).

3.3. Making a Booking

A Booking is made by calling methods of the Linear Acquisition component..

3.3.1. Duplicate Bookings

The Linear Acquisition component shall always reject Booking requests that are a duplicate of an existing Booking. If there is an existing Booking of the same type with the same priority and identifier (CRID or Event Locator) the Booking request shall be rejected.

3.3.2. Event Bookings

An Event Booking is a request to acquire a specific event from the linear schedule. 3.3.2.1. Priority 1 Event Bookings If the Linear Acquisition component predicts that it will have insufficient tuner resources available to acquire the requested event (see section 3.5.1) then it has detected a Booking Conflict and it shall reject the Booking. This can be used by the caller (likely to be the Platform Main UI) to alert the

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viewer, e.g. presenting a suitable on-screen dialogue to allow them to resolve the conflict. The exact nature of this dialogue and how it is achieved is outside the scope of this specification. The prediction shall be based on the linear schedule available at the time of booking. Note: A Booking Conflict will only occur when making a Priority 1 Event Booking. 3.3.2.2. Priority 2 11 Event bookings The Linear Acquisition component shall always accept lower priority (2 11) Bookings regardless of any potential conflicts, instead resolving any conflict at acquisition time.

3.3.3. Programme and Series Bookings

Programme and Series Bookings represent a request to acquire a single Programme or an entire Series respectively. Neither of these Booking requests involves an event locator so the Linear Acquisition component shall not attempt to detect any conflicts at booking time. Both Programme and Series Bookings require further management to resolve the Booking into one or more events to acquire. This resolution process is described in sections 3.4.2 and 3.4.3.

3.3.4. Instant recording

The Linear Acquisition component provides a means for the viewer to request the instant recording of the service currently being viewed. Requests to start an instant recording are not subject to the conflict detection rules defined in section 3.3.2. The request to start recording shall be successful if: Note: The Event requested is in the present slot of EIT p/f on its parent Service. The Event is not currently being acquired as a result of an existing Priority 1 Scheduled Recording. The Linear Acquisition component has sufficient resource to start the recording (see note). Starting a recording using this method could introduce future acquisition clashes that will be dealt with as defined in section 3.5.2.

3.4. Bookings management

3.4.1. Tracking schedule changes
The Linear Acquisition component shall update the Bookings and Scheduled Recordings in line with new schedule information. Schedule changes shall be tracked as defined in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. When new linear schedule data becomes available the Linear Acquisition component shall check whether any new events carry a CRID that is present in the Booking list.

3.4.2. Programme Bookings resolution

For any Programme Bookings that do not have an associated Scheduled Recording the resolution process shall find the soonest Event that can be scheduled for acquisition without causing a predicted conflict. Multiple Scheduled Recordings related to different Bookings can be linked to acquisition of the same Event as specified in section 3.2.2.

3.4.3. Series Bookings resolution

The Linear Acquisition component shall keep a list of all Programme CRIDs that have been completely acquired in satisfying a given Series Booking. The list associated with a Series Booking shall be checked before any new Scheduled Recordings are created and associated with that

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Booking. This ensures that repeat showings of a programme are not acquired again even when a device has already completely acquired the programme and the viewer has deleted the file from the Local Media Library. The list shall be deleted when the Series Booking is deleted. The Linear Acquisition component shall search for any Events that have a Series CRID that matches the Booking. When an Event is found the Events Programme CRID (if present) shall be checked against the list of Programme CRIDs already acquired for this Booking: If the CRID is not present in the list, the automatic update shall find the soonest Event with that Programme CRID that can be scheduled for acquisition without causing a predicted conflict. If the CRID is in the list no Scheduled Recordings shall be created.

3.4.4. Creating Scheduled Recordings

When a new Scheduled Recording is created the Linear Acquisition component shall inform the Local Media Library which shall then estimate the space required to store the acquisition (see section 6.2.1). If the creation of a new Scheduled Recording means that there is now more than one Priority 1 Scheduled Recording associated with a broadcast event the Local Media Library will already have estimated space and shall not be informed.

3.4.5. Post-booking conflicts

The Linear Acquisition component shall respond to changes in the schedule as defined in section 3.4.1. One possible outcome of changes to Scheduled Recordings is that a conflict is introduced and the Linear Acquisition component will not be able to acquire all the Priority 1 Scheduled Recordings.

3.4.6. Viewer updates to Bookings and Scheduled Recordings

3.4.6.1. Deleting a Booking When a Booking is deleted the Linear Acquisition component shall delete all associated Scheduled Recordings. If any of the Scheduled Recordings are in progress the Booking cannot be deleted until these Scheduled Recordings have been stopped or have completed. 3.4.6.2. Deleting a Scheduled Recording If a Priority 1 Scheduled Recording is deleted, any duplicate Priority 1 Scheduled Recordings that are associated with the same Schedule Event shall also be deleted. If a deleted Scheduled Recording is linked to a Programme or Event Booking, the Linear Acquisition component shall also delete the Booking. If a Scheduled Recording is deleted and the parent Booking is a Series Booking, the Booking shall not be deleted. As a consequence of this, an identical Scheduled Recording may be created as part of the next automatic update as described in section 3.4.3. To avoid this becoming a race condition when the viewer is attempting to manually resolve a booking conflict the automatic update process described in sections 3.4.2 and 3.4.3 shall not execute in the 10 minutes immediately after the viewer has deleted a Scheduled Recording.

3.5. Determining which Events to acquire

3.5.1. Working with available tuner resource
When allocating tuners to acquisitions the Linear Acquisition component shall base its decisions on the following order of priorities:

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Most important Less important Least important

Priority 1 recordings Live or time-shifted linear consumption (TV/Radio) Priority 2-11 recordings

This means that the Linear Acquisition component is able to take control of tuners as necessary to meets its acquisition obligations with respect to Priority 1 Scheduled Recordings, even if this is at the expense of live TV viewing. Priority 2-11 Scheduled Recordings shall only be acquired where they do not disrupt the control of tuners for Priority 1 Scheduled Recordings or live/time-shifted linear consumption. Acquisition of low priority Scheduled Recordings shall take place if possible even if some higher priority Scheduled Recordings are not possible.

3.5.2. Handling Acquisition Conflicts

An Acquisition Conflict arises when there are insufficient tuner resources to start a new recording. Figure 29 shows how the Linear Acquisition component shall behave when an Acquisition Conflict occurs. There may be multiple Priority 1 Scheduled Recordings associated with a single Schedule Event and for the purposes of acquisition conflict detection they shall be considered as a single Priority 1 Scheduled Recording see section 3.2.2.
Insufficient resources to start new recording

Yes

Is there an in-progress recording with a lower priority than the one due to start?

No

Stop the recording with the lowest priority and start the new recording

Do not start new recording re-evaluate when a current inprogress recording finishes

Figure 29 : Behaviour for Acquisition Conflicts

3.6. Acquisition
3.6.1. Commencing acquisition
Acquisition of linear content shall be controlled by changes in the EIT present/following information as described in the DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1. Support for timer based acquisition is not required for launch. For timer based acquisition it is expected that the acquisition start time will be the scheduled start time of the event and the acquisition end time will be the scheduled end time of the event e.g. to support acquisition from IP channels.

3.6.2. Components to acquire

The Linear Acquisition component shall acquire the following components of a linear channel: video (if a TV service)

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audio, in accordance with viewer preferences at the time of acquisition subtitles (if present) see section 3.6.2.1 for additional requirements audio description (if present)

3.6.2.1. Subtitle timing signature Whilst making any recording from a linear channel, if the service contains a subtitle component, the device shall parse the subtitle data to extract the timings of significant subtitle events as follows: For each subtitle PES packet, the device shall determine whether the packet contains the beginning of a new subtitle, an update of a subtitle on screen, or the end of a subtitle by identifying how many regions are listed in the page composition segment, which of these contain subtitle objects, and whether there is a version change for the page or for any region. If there was no subtitle present previously, the presence of one or more regions containing one or more objects implies a subtitle start. If there was a subtitle present previously, a page with no regions or a page with regions that are all empty of objects implies the end of that subtitle. If a previous subtitle has not ended, there is a subtitle change if the page or any region that is part of the page changes version.

The device does not need to parse any further structures within the subtitle PES packet and does not need to decode any subtitle bitmaps. For each start, change and end point detected, the device shall record the PTS value of the corresponding subtitle PES packet and store this information in the Local Media Library. The PTS value of the first video frame shall also be recorded. The device shall provide a mechanism by which the timing data can be accessed by applications. The information shall be made available in the following format: { startTime: 123456789, subtitles: [ { type: start, time: 123456789 }, { type: end, time: 123456789 }, { type: start, time: 123456789 }, { type: update, time: 123456789 }, { type: end, time: 123456789 } ] } Where 123456789 is replaced by the relevant PTS value in units of 1/90,000 sec. PTS of first video frame

PTS of subtitle start event

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3.6.3. Concluding acquisition

An acquisition could be concluded for one of the following reasons: 1. The event being acquired moves from the present slot in the EIT p/f. 2. Acquisition is stopped under the runaway recording rule as defined in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 22.2.3.14 3. The Local Media Library runs out of free storage space. 4. Viewer interaction causes the acquisition to be stopped. 5. The Linear Acquisition Component stops the recording to free resource for a higher priority acquisition. 6. The defined end time for the acquisition is reached (Timer based Bookings only). 3.6.3.1. Acquisitions that conclude due to viewer action In every instance where the viewer prematurely concludes an acquisition, any acquired media shall be kept in the Local Media Library (regardless of the amount of content acquired).

3.7. Post-acquisition handling

3.7.1. Complete acquisitions
An event is deemed to be completely acquired if:
Actual duration (see Note) Ten minutes or less Greater than ten minutes Complete condition More than the 80% of the actual duration has been acquired More than the actual duration minus two minutes has been acquired Table 34 Conditions for a complete acquisition

Note:

The actual duration is defined as the time between the event entering the present slot of EIT p/f and subsequently leaving it. If the viewer initiates a recording after an event has entered p/f present the actual duration shall be calculated from the point at which recording began. For timer records the actual duration shall be taken as the time between the scheduled start time of the recording and the scheduled end time.

When an acquisition is complete, any associated Scheduled Recordings in the logical representation defined in section 3.2 shall be deleted. If a Scheduled Recording is part of a Programme Booking the parent Booking shall also be deleted. If a Scheduled Recording is part of a Series or Collection Booking, the Booking shall not be deleted and the Programme CRID (if any) shall be added to the list of CRIDs already acquired for that Booking.

3.7.2. Failed acquisitions

An acquisition is deemed to have failed if:
Actual duration (see Note) Ten minutes or less Greater than ten minutes Failure condition Less than 50% of the actual duration has been acquired Less than five minutes of the programme has been acquired Table 35: Conditions for a failed acquisition

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Note:

The actual duration is defined as the time between the event entering the present slot of EIT p/f and subsequently leaving it. If the viewer initiates a recording after an event has entered p/f present the actual duration shall be calculated from the point at which recording began. For timer records the actual duration shall be taken as the time between the scheduled start time of the recording and the scheduled end time.

When an acquisition fails, any associated Scheduled Recordings in the logical representation defined in section 3.2 shall be deleted. The Local Media Library shall delete any acquired content associated with the acquisition but retain the stored metadata (see section 6.4.3). If no content has been acquired the Local Media Library shall update its estimate of storage requirements (see section 6.2) and retain the stored metadata. 3.7.2.1. Priority level 1 Programme or Event Bookings If a Scheduled Recording linked to a Programme or Event Booking fails, the Linear Acquisition component shall search the current EITschedule to find an alternative instance that can be acquired. The search shall be based on the Programme CRID associated with the Schedule Event in the EIT p/f information. If an alternative instance is found, a new Scheduled Recording shall be created (see section 3.4.4) and linked to the original Booking. The Scheduled Recording associated with the failed acquisition shall be deleted. If no alternative instance can be found the Scheduled Recording associated with the failed acquisition shall be deleted as well as the associated Booking. If an alternative instance is found and the subsequent acquisition attempt results in a partial or complete acquisition, the stored metadata for the old (failed) acquisition shall be discarded from the Local Media Library. 3.7.2.2. Priority level 2 11 Event or Programme Bookings The Linear Acquisition component shall not look for alternative instances to acquire failed lower priority Bookings. In case of failure, both the Booking and the Scheduled Recording are to be deleted. 3.7.2.3. Series Bookings If a Scheduled Recording linked to a Series Booking fails, the associated Scheduled Recording shall be deleted. If an alternative instance is available for the failed recording, a Scheduled Recording may be created as a result of the automatic update described in section 3.4.3. 3.7.2.4. Timer based Bookings The Linear Acquisition component shall not look for alternative instances to acquire failed Timer Bookings. In case of failure, both the Booking and the Scheduled Recording are to be deleted.

3.7.3. Partial acquisitions

An event is deemed to be partially acquired if it does not satisfy the criteria for failure (see section 3.7.2) and does not satisfy the criteria for a complete acquisition (see section 3.7). 3.7.3.1. Priority 1 partial acquisitions If an acquisition is partial the Local Media Library shall retain the acquired content and metadata. The Linear Acquisition component shall follow the process defined in section 3.7.2.1 to look for alternative instances that could be acquired. If, on a subsequent acquisition attempt, a greater proportion of the programme is acquired, the new acquisition and supporting metadata shall replace the partial acquisition in the Local Media Library. 3.7.3.2. Priority level 2 11 partial acquisitions The Linear Acquisition component shall not look for alternative instances to satisfy lower priority Bookings. In case of failure, both the Booking and the Scheduled Recording are to be deleted.

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4. IP Downloader
The IP Downloader shall support the download mechanisms defined in Chapter IX IP Content Delivery. It shall also support the resource management functionality defined in this chapter.

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5. The Acquisition Manager

5.1. General
The Acquisition Manager shall satisfy the functional requirements defined in this section. Part of the Acquisition Managers functionality is the application of business rules which are likely to evolve over time. The Acquisition Manager has three roles in the acquisition architecture: The first is to allow for the booking of content downloads. This provides a point at which business and operation rules relating to the prioritisation of concurrent download requests can be applied. The Acquisition Manager resolves a request for a content download into one or more file requests which are passed on to the IP Downloader component. The Acquisition Managers second role is to minimise viewer interaction in acquisition failure scenarios. If an acquisition fails, the Acquisition Manager will pursue other acquisition opportunities for that piece of content e.g. if a recording fails and the Linear Acquisition component cannot identify an alternative instance, the Acquisition Manager may be able to arrange for the programme to be download over IP instead. Finally, the Acquisition Manager houses the Push-VOD for IP mitigation functionality i.e. the logic to acquire a record list, over broadcast and/or IP and to make the necessary requests of the Linear Acquisition component.

5.2. Architecture
The business logic implemented by the Acquisition Manager will need to evolve, modifying the acquisition behaviour of the platform over time. To achieve this, the Acquisition Manager will need to be configurable.

Platform Main UI
Download booking

Acquisition Manager
Push-VOD for IP mitigation logic Logic to maximise acquisition opportunities (business rules)
Recording booking Acquisition events (download)

Query contents of library

Download booking interface

Individual file requests

Linear Acquisition
Recorded programmes

Interface 1 Acquisition events (recording)

File events

IP Downloader
Downloaded programmes

Local Media Library

Figure 30 : The acquisition subsystem architecture

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6. Local Media Library

6.1. General
The Local Media Library shall satisfy the functional requirements defined in this chapter. The Local Media Library contains all the programme content that the device has acquired through either linear acquisition or IP download in a single storage area. The Library also stores descriptive metadata for: Pending acquisitions (excluded from queries as defined in section 6.4.3). Failed acquisitions. Partial acquisitions. Complete acquisitions.

6.2. Reporting available storage space

The Local Media Library shall track the amount of storage that is:
Free Used (recordings) Used (downloads) Anticipated (recordings) Not currently in use. Currently in use to store recordings. Currently in use to store downloads. The amount of space that the Local Media Library anticipates will be required to store all the pending (Priority 1) Scheduled Recordings. It is permissible for the amount of estimated space required to exceed the free space available. The amount of space that the Local Media Library anticipates will be required to store all the pending downloads. . It is permissible for the amount of estimated space required to exceed the free space available.

Anticipated (downloads)

Note: Local storage allocated to Push-VOD (Priority 7 11) acquisitions shall not be included in the values above.

6.2.1. Determining estimated space

Broadcast For items still to be acquired by the Linear Acquisition component, the Local Media Library shall calculate the estimated space requirement by multiplying the published duration (in seconds) of each event to be acquired by an estimated bit rate. It is sufficient for the Linear Acquisition component to use two bit rate estimates for this purpose, one for SD services and one for HD services. The space requirements will be provided in the metadata that describes the download.

Download

6.3. Metadata storage

The Local Media Library shall store descriptive metadata with each acquired programme.

6.3.1. Recordings
This descriptive metadata shall be obtained from broadcast. The Local Media Library shall acquire the necessary metadata when the Linear Acquisition component creates a Scheduled Recording (see section 3.4.4).

6.3.2. IP Downloads
The Local Media Library may acquire the necessary metadata before acquisition begins but it must update the metadata at the time of acquisition.

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6.4. Storage management

6.4.1. Freeing up storage space
To allow the device to operate in a manner such that new recordings and downloads never fail due to lack of free storage space the Local Media Library shall offer an automatic deletion capability. The viewer shall be able to enable or disable the automatic deletion process within the device settings. When active, this process shall attempt to free up local storage space by deleting acquired programmes. The process shall be applied when the amount of Local Media Library storage (excluding the Push-VOD reservation) that is free falls below a configurable threshold. The algorithm shall first delete content items that have been played starting with the oldest priority 6 acquisitions and ending with the newest Priority 1 acquisition. If more space is required the algorithm should then delete unplayed content items starting with the oldest priority 6 acquisitions and ending with the newest priority 1acquisition. When the percentage of storage that is in use has fallen below the defined threshold the process shall stop.

6.4.2. Protecting programmes

Content items can be protected from the automatic deletion process by marking them as protected.

6.4.3. Querying the library contents

The Local Media Library shall provide means by which the contents of the library can be queried, and shall support the sorting of returned results by: A Z based on title. Most recently viewed. Most recently acquired.

When responding to such queries the Local Media Library shall not include the contents of the PushVOD reservation (see section 7.2) or entries describing pending acquisitions, but it shall include entries for failed acquisitions. The Local Media Library shall provide means by which an Application can check whether a specific programme is present in local storage by providing an appropriate identifier e.g. a Programme CRID. The Local Media Library shall take into account all locally stored content (including any in the PushVOD reservation) as part of this check.

6.4.4. Deleting library items

The Local Media Library shall provide means by which the Platform Main UI can delete items from the library. Deleting an item requires that the Local Media Library remove any metadata and stored content associated with the item.

6.4.5. Metadata integrity

The Local Media Library shall periodically (at least once every 24 hours) check that every content item available from local storage has a corresponding metadata record. Any local storage items without supporting metadata shall be deleted.

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7. Push-VOD for IP Mitigation

7.1. Introduction
Before initiating playback of an IP stream an application is able to check whether the asset to be streamed is available from local storage (see section 6.4.3). If available, the stored asset can be played back instead, thus reducing traffic on the IP network. Applications can use the subtitle timing signature described in section 3.6.2.1 to play back a recorded programme identified in this way cleanly, without any unwanted announcements. To increase the likelihood that a requested asset is present in local storage, the platform operator can prime the storage using Push-VOD. The device reserves a portion of local storage for Push-VOD use which the platform operator can use to store recorded assets. The platform operator specifies which programmes should be recording by means of a record list. The list of assets within this reserved storage is never directly exposed to applications. In simple implementations there may be a single record list for all devices e.g. based on content popularity; an alternative would be to generate a custom list for each device based on viewing habits. The Acquisition Manager shall contain the functionality required to fetch the list of items to be acquired and manage the appropriate Bookings on the Linear Acquisition component. The Local Media Library shall offer applications the opportunity to check whether an asset is available from local storage.

7.2. Reserved storage for Push-VOD

The Local Media Library shall reserve 30GB of storage to store speculative acquisitions made for the purpose of IP traffic mitigation. Any acquisitions made to satisfy Bookings with a priority of 7 11 (see section 3.2.4) shall be stored in this reserved storage.

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Chapter XII
Application Discovery And Installation

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter describes how downloadable Applications (which will be referred to as Content Provider Applications) are discovered, installed and managed on the consumer device, and introduces the logical components Local Application Library, . Other Applications may be present on the device provided as part of the Platform Software. This is not covered by this chapter.

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2. Overview
The Platform Main UI allows the viewer to discover a range of Content Provider Applications that can be installed onto the device. Figure 31 shows three different ways in which Applications could be discovered by the viewer.
Platform Main UI Browse on-demand Eastenders Hollyoaks Coronation Street Platform Main UI Application Gallery App A App D App B App E App C App F TV (BBC One) RED

Install(App E) if not installed install(ITV Player) If not installed install(BBCRedButtonApp)

Local Application Library (LAL)

Periodic check and update

Application Monitor

Platform Main UI My Apps App Q App T Launch(BBCRedButtonApp)

App Z

Launch(ITVplayer)

Launch(AppZ)

User Interface Management Engine

ITVplayer

App Z

BBCRedButtonApp

App Z

Figure 31 : Content Provider Applications overview

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2.1. Classes of Application

Content Provider Applications can be classified as follows: A Viewer-managed Application is one has been installed at the direct request of the viewer. A Platform-managed Application is one that has been installed at the request of some Platform management service.

2.2. Explicit Application discovery

The Platform Main UI provides a means for viewers to discover the Applications available to them in the Application Gallery. Here the viewer can select specific Applications to be installed onto the device where they are stored in the Local Application Library (LAL). Viewers can list the contents of the LAL and launch any of their installed Applications.

2.3. Implicit Application discovery

In some cases the viewer will make a request that requires that a Content Provider Application be launched. The viewer will not necessarily be aware that an Application launch is involved e.g. in Figure 31 the viewer selects Coronation Street from an on-demand menu which requires the launch of the ITV Player Application. If the required Application is not present in the LAL it will have to be installed in a just in time manner.

2.3.1. Pre-installation of Applications

For a performant viewer experience it is useful to have a collection of frequently used Applications pre-installed on the device. For example, the Platform Main UI lists content items in the on-demand section, each of which is dependent on a Content Provider player Application for its presentation. Pre-installing these Applications means that the viewer does not have to wait when an item of content was selected. The pre-installation and update of the Applications is handled by the logical component shown in Figure 31 as the Application Monitor.

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3. Application discovery and installation architecture

3.1. Overview
Figure 32 shows the different logical components that make up the Application Discovery and Installation environment.

Content Provider
App provider back-end services

Device
App. UIME
Launch

Metadata Publication service List

Download ADI Local Application Library Verification

Install Update Uninstall

Platform Main UI

Application hosting

B2B
Application catalogue

Core Operations (CCO)

Back-end functionality Client-facing interface B2C
OSL

Device Capability Information

MAS

Figure 32 : System overview

Viewer discovery of Applications within the Platform Main UI is based on metadata provided by the Metadata Aggregation System (MAS). Applications themselves are not hosted by the Platform Operator. Instead they are hosted by the Content Provider and may be downloaded over the Application Download Interface (ADI). This allows Content Providers to control which version of an Application is available at a given time. At the heart of the environment is the Local Application Library. The LAL offers four main functions: Installing Applications, including download and verification (see section 4). Allowing other software components to query the installed Applications as part of Application launch (see section 5). Management and update of installed Applications (see section 6). Uninstalling Applications (see section 7).

In order to provide these functions the LAL includes Download and Verification subcomponents. The LAL also stores descriptive metadata for installed Applications for use by the Platform Main UI. The User Interface Management Engine (UIME) is responsible for managing the life-cycle of launched Applications (see Chapter XIII Consumer Device UI Management).

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3.2. Device capabilities

This specification anticipates: 1. Support for more than one Application format. 2. An evolution of device capabilities over time that means not all deployed consumer devices will have the same capabilities. Section 3.4 describes the means to manage this at Application discovery time i.e. filtering of the results returned on the B2C interface to exclude any Applications that are not compatible with the consumer device. Applications may also be authored to manage this at run-time i.e. perform a capabilities check on the device and adapt accordingly. This is not covered by this chapter.

3.3. Conceptual model

Figure 33 shows the conceptual model for Content Provider Applications.

Application
1 n

Platform B2B metadata

Device-specific Application Build

1
(see note) 1

Application Download Interface

Version of Device-specific Application Build

Figure 33 : Conceptual data model

The top level Application entity represents the abstract application concept and contains descriptive information such as title, description and any parental guidance. A Device-specific Application Build refers to a build of an Application for a specific presentation engine. An Application entity may have multiple Device-specific Application Builds. Finally, a Version of a Device-specific Application Build describes a particular version of a Devicespecific Application Build. This level of the model corresponds to an Application that can be installed.

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Note:

Though there will be multiple versions of a Device-specific Application Build, there will only be one available for download to the device at any given time.

3.4. Application discovery

Device capability can be used in combination with targeting metadata provided by the MAS to allow the Application gallery to only show Applications that are compatible with the device.

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4. Installing Applications on the device

Requests to install an Application are made to the LAL. The target Application is identified by a Platform-unique Application Record Identifier allocated by the Metadata Aggregation System. The LAL retrieves metadata including the download URL for the target Application.

4.1. Application download

The Local Application Library uses a Download subcomponent to handle the download process. The Download subcomponent maintains a queue of HTTP downloads which can be paused and resumed. It can perform multiple download operations in parallel. The Download subcomponent will attempt to start new download requests immediately to ensure that the process of downloading and installing an Application is not unnecessarily delayed by existing download requests. The Download subcomponent must respond appropriately to traffic levels on the consumer devices IP interface when the viewer is viewing an on-demand IP stream. See Chapter IV Consumer Device IP Networking.

4.2. Application verification

All Applications are signed and the Local Application Library uses the Verification subcomponent to ensure that an Application has been signed with a valid certificate and is trusted before the Application can be placed in Application storage.

4.3. Storage
The device shall provide a means to store the following: Installed Applications. Applications metadata. Applications private data.

This allocation shall be separate from space used for AV media storage and is defined in Chapter VII Consumer Device Storage Management.

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5. Selecting and launching an Application

In the context of downloadable Applications the UIME will only launch Applications that are installed and managed by the LAL. Any request to launch an Application that is not already installed will fail. The LAL provides a means by which the Platform Main UI and other software components can determine which Applications are installed. This could be used to present a list of installed Applications to the viewer.

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6. Management and update of installed Applications

It is important that devices have the latest version of an Application installed to minimise the legacy version support that content providers need to provide.

6.1. Checking for an updated version

The LAL is able to use the Download subcomponent to check whether a new version of an Application is available over the ADI. Whenever an Application is successfully downloaded and installed the Download subcomponent shall store the ETag and Last-Modified entries from the HTTP Header. To check for an update the Download subcomponent shall contact the Application Providers server passing the HTTP ETag as part of an If-None-Match HEAD request, or a Last-Modified as part of an If-ModifiedSince HEAD request. If the server responds with an HTTP 304 (Not Modified) then there is explicitly no update available. If the server responds with an HTTP 200 (OK) then there is an update available.

If the Download subcomponent is unable to access the file by following the supplied URL, the LAL shall check that the URL is still correct by updating the Application metadata to the latest version available. If the URL has changed the LAL shall inform the Download subcomponent which shall then run through the update check process defined above, using the new URL. If the LAL discovers that a new version of an Application is available it will update the metadata stored with the Application to indicate that an update is available. This can be used by the Platform Main UI Application when presenting the list of installed Applications, to alert the viewer to the fact that the installed version of a particular Application is out of date.

6.2. Periodic check for updates

An update check process external to the LAL shall periodically request the complete list of installed Applications (including Platform-managed Applications) and for each one requests that the LAL check whether an update is available. If an update is available, the external update check process may request that the LAL acquires the latest version, subject to the type of Application.

6.2.1. Platform-managed Applications

If an update is available for a Platform-managed Application the external update check process shall request that the LAL download the latest version..

6.2.2. Viewer-managed Applications

If an update is available for a Viewer-managed Application the external update check process shall inspect the viewer settings to check whether automatic Application update is enabled. This value can be set by the viewer through the Platform Main UI and tells the update check whether it should automatically acquire updates to Viewer-managed Applications. If the automatic Application update is disabled the update check process shall take no further action for that Application. The viewer is responsible for triggering the actual update. If the automatic Application update is enabled the external update check process shall request that the LAL download the latest version..

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6.3. Update process

The LAL will not allow an Application to be installed onto the device until it has been verified (see section 4.2). Only at the point of installation is the existing version replaced. The install step must be atomic so an attempt to launch an Application during the update process will result in the launch of the existing version.

6.4. Factory Reset and Application data

If the viewer initiates the Factory Reset function or the Clear Private Data function, Applications and their data will be handled as defined in Chapter VII Consumer Device Storage Management.

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7. Uninstalling Applications
Installed Applications can only be uninstalled by a request to the LAL. Requests to uninstall an installed Application will be made by the Platform Main UI in response to: An explicit request by the viewer to remove a Viewer-managed Application. A decision by the Platform to remove a Platform-managed Application.

Whilst an Application is in use it cannot be uninstalled.

7.1. Storage
When the Platform Main UI requests that an Application be uninstalled the LAL is responsible for ensuring that the following is removed: The installed Application. The descriptive metadata. Any data the Application has stored on the device.

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Chapter XIII
Consumer Device UI Management

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter defines how devices support more than one presentation technology and hence different types of Applications. It also describes how devices support the presentation to the user of multiple co-existing Applications, of the same or different content types, and how the shared device resources required by those Applications are managed. This chapter also introduces a logical component the User Interface Management Engine (UIME), and describes its features and behaviour.

1.1. Audience
This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Understand the concepts presented in relation to User Interface Management and implement the required functionality Integrate the open-source libraries and components specified.

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Introduction
The UIME is a configurable software component which manages the User Interface and exposes UI Management functionality to Applications and other software components. The Key functions of the UIME are: Management of the lifecycle of Application Player Instances. Management of the lifecycle of Applications rendered by Application Player instances. Management of presentation properties of the multiple graphics surfaces which are created by multiple Application Player instances and drawn to by Applications. Allocation and policing of Application Player memory and CPU usage limits. Management of appropriate routing of User Input Events where multiple Applications are running concurrently. Management of the Viewer Perceived Operating State of the Consumer Device. Provision of sufficient configurability of the logic which implements the above, to support evolving in-field usage patterns.

2.1. Definition of terms

This chapter introduces a number of specific terms which are set out in the following table:
Term Application Player Application Window Explanation Runtime environment for the execution of Applications. Examples could be Flash player, MHEG engine, W3C browser. Packaged and managed software that provides functionality to consumers. A presentable rectangle created by an Application Player to which graphical content can be rendered by an Application. Windows are stackable, and the makeup of any particular screen presented to the viewer is the result of the composition of one or more stacked windows. Applications that are managed by the Platform Operator. An Application Player, which manages its own lifecycle but allows its presentation to managed by the UIME. An Application hosted by an External Application Player An event raised in response to the user pressing a button on a remote control or keyboard, or otherwise interacting with the system using a control device. A set of User Input Events which an Application can respond to whilst Active. A set of User Input Events which an Application can respond to whether Active or Inactive. The process of starting an Application Player Instance to render an Application at the time the Application needs to be rendered. The process of starting an Application Player Instance without requiring it to render an Application until some point in the future. General purpose memory available to the Application CPU that may be used to hold graphics. Memory accessible directly by graphics acceleration and graphics display hardware. A Window to which all unconsumed User Input Events are routed.

Platform UI Applications Externally Started Application Player External Application User Input Event

Key Set Grabbed Keys Cold Starting Warm Starting System Memory Video Memory Collector Window

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Input Window Active Application Application Manager Application Player Manager Window Manager

The single Window associated with an Application which is capable of receiving User Input Events. The Application which is visibly running in the foreground and whose Input Window is focussed. UIME sub-component responsible for Application state and lifecycle. UIME sub-component responsible for the processes that host Applications, and for CPU and memory resource management. UIME sub-component responsible for composition and rendering of windows for multiple Application Players.

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3. UIME Overview
The UIME shall provide support for multiple Application Player instances running concurrently. These Application Player instances may be started by or independently of the UIME component. Application Player instances create Windows, and render Applications to those Windows. The UIME shall receive notifications when an Application Player process starts or stops, when an Application Player creates or destroys a Window and when an Application Player starts or stops playing an Application. The UIME shall use the Application Player, Application and Window state notifications to track which Application Players, Applications and Windows are in existence, and what the associations are between them. Application Players shall be linked against DirectFB and necessary shared system libraries, in order to provide direct access to functionality provided by those libraries.

3.1. UIME internal architecture

The UIME is comprised of 4 logical sub-components, the Application Player Manager, Application Manager, Window Manager and UI Manager.

3.1.1. Application Player Manager

The Application Player Manager component is responsible for tracking which Application Players are in existence, what state they are in, and what Applications they are hosting. It allows new Application Players to be started and existing Application Players to be killed and suspended.

3.1.2. Application Manager

The Application Manager component is responsible for tracking which Applications are in existence, what state they are in, which Application Players are hosting them and which Windows they are rendering to.

3.1.3. Window Manager

The Window Manager component is responsible for tracking which Windows are in existence, what the visual properties of those windows are and which Applications those windows are associated with.

3.1.4. UI Manager
The UI Manager sub-component provides overall User Interface control functionality, which is not specific to a particular Application instance.

3.2. Configuration
The behaviour of the Application Manager, Application Player Manager and Window Manager can be configured to support a range of user interaction models. The configuration supports optimisation of the UI Management rules for deployment to a range of devices whose graphics processing capabilities differ. The configuration also enables tuning of the logic governing graphics composition and Application lifecycle, to enable evolution in the field as understanding of audience behaviour increases and commercial models change.

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Figure 34 : UIME logical model

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4. Application Player Manager

4.1. Introduction
Application Players are executables which render Applications to Windows. Application Player instances run in processes external to the UIME. The Application Player Manager sub-component shall support the concurrent running of multiple Application Players of different types provide the following key functionality: Allows the UIME to become aware that new Application Player processes have started. Allows the UIME to become aware that existing Application Player processes have terminated. Allows other UIME sub-components to request that new Application Player processes are started. Allows other UIME sub-components to request that existing Application Player processes are terminated. Applies UIME Policy to the lifecycle of Application Players, and polices memory and CPU usage of those Application Players.

Application Players are required to render graphics into DirectFB surfaces using DirectFB APIs. DirectFB stores display property and process information about its client processes, and hence Application Players. The Application Player Manager uses the SaWMan library to access this information, and this is the primary mechanism by which it is able to maintain synchronicity with those external Application Player processes. The Application Player Manager shall support the following: Lifecycle management of Application Players it starts (UIME Started Application Players) Limited lifecycle management of Application Players which are started externally to it (Externally Started Application Players)

4.2. UIME Started Application Players

4.2.1. Overview
The UIME shall support the starting and stopping of Application Players. The lifecycle of UIME Started Application Players shall be wholly controlled by the UIME.

4.2.2. Starting
For UIME Started Application Players, the following 2 launch modes shall be supported. 4.2.2.1. Warm starting The Application Player Manager shall support the starting of one or more instances of an Application Player without needing to specify which Application or Applications the started Application Player is required to render. This allows the Application Player Manager to start, but not immediately use Application Players, such that they are ready to play Applications when required. Playing an Application in a warm-started Application Player results in a faster rendering time because the Application Player initialisation has already taken place, and it is only then necessary for the Application Player to initialise and launch the Application when instructed to do so by the UIME.

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4.2.2.2. Cold starting The Application Player Manager shall support the starting of Application Players as a consequence of a request to launch an Application of the corresponding type. In this mode, the Application Player shall begin rendering the Application as soon as possible after the Application Player has started.

4.2.3. Lifecycle
The Application Player Manager shall model the lifecycle of UIME started Application Players as follows:

Figure 35 : UIME Started Application Player states

4.2.4. Stopping
The Application Player Manager shall be responsible for the shutdown and process removal of UIME started Application Players. The Application Player Manager may stop, and subsequently remove an Application Player after an Application the Application Player was hosting terminates. In this way, memory and other resource

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used by the Application Player can be reclaimed. This may typically happen prior to the device entering standby state, or when the system resources that the Application Player is consuming are required by higher priority processes.

4.3. Externally Started Application Players

4.3.1. Overview
The UIME shall support the display of Applications rendered by Application Players started externally to it. The Application Player Manager shall not be responsible for starting or stopping Externally Started Application Players, nor shall it be responsible for instigating the launching of Applications to be rendered by such Application Players.

4.3.2. Starting
The way Externally Started Application Players are started is beyond the scope of this chapter. The Application Player Manager shall support Externally Started Application Players which are started both before and after the UIME itself starts.

4.3.3. Lifecycle
The Application Player Manager shall provide a signalling mechanism to indicate to Externally Started Application Players that they are either running or suspended. When an Externally Started Application Player is in the RUNNING state, the UIME will consider requests from the Application Player to Activate Applications it is hosting. When an Externally Started Application Player is in the SUSPENDED state, the UIME will ignore requests from those Application Players to Activate Applications they are hosting, and ensure that no Application graphics rendered by those Application Players can be displayed. External Application Players shall use these signals to operate efficiently, and not attempt to render any Application graphics when in SUSPENDED state.

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The Application Player Manager shall model the lifecycle of Externally Started Application Players as follows:

Figure 36 : Externally Started Application Player states

4.3.4. Terminating
The Application Player Manager shall not be responsible for the shutdown or process removal of External Application Players.

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5. Application Manager
5.1. Introduction
The UIME shall support the concurrent running of multiple Applications. The UIMEs Application Manager sub-component manages this by controlling the lifecycle of Applications. The Application Manager shall support the following: Management of lifecycle and display of Applications it launches (UIME Launched Applications). Management of display of Applications, which are launched externally to it (Externally Launched Applications).

5.2. UIME Launched Applications

5.2.1. Overview
The Application Manager shall support the launching and stopping of Applications. The lifecycle and display of UIME Launched Applications shall be wholly controlled by the Application Manager.

5.2.2. Application IDs

The Application Manager shall generate a unique Application ID for each UIME Launched Application at the time that the Applications launch is requested. The Application ID shall be available to both the launched Application and the launching entity.

5.2.3. Launching
The Application Manager shall provide means to launch Applications. UIME policy shall determine whether to allow or deny Application launch requests and as such, the Application Manager shall be capable of denying requests to launch Applications should it consider the launch inappropriate. Where the Application Manager allows a request to launch an Application, it will ensure that an appropriate Application Player is running to play the Application. If an Application Player of the necessary type is not already running, the Application Manager shall cold-start one, passing the URI of the Application to launch to the Application Player. Configuration parameters determine how an Application Player executable can be associated with an Application content type. The following Application launch scenarios shall be supported: Applications whose launch is initiated by the Application Manager. Applications whose launch is initiated by direct clients of the Application Manager. Applications whose launch is initiated by other Applications.

5.2.4. Activation and Deactivation

The Application Manager shall support the concurrent running and display of multiple Applications. The Application Manager shall ensure that where multiple Applications are running concurrently, only a maximum of one of those Applications can be Active at any time. When an Application successfully undergoes the process of Activation, and hence becomes Active, if there was a previously Active Application, the Application Manager shall force its Deactivation, such that it becomes Inactive, in order that the rule that only one Application can be Active at a time holds. The Active Application is considered Active from the viewers point of view. It is the Application running visibly in the foreground, whose Window is Focussed, and as such is the primary Application that the user interacts with when they press buttons on the remote control, or otherwise interact with a control device.

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The Application Manager shall ensure that the Active Application will have been previously associated with a focusable Window, and that Activation requests for Applications not associated with a focusable Window will be denied. The Application Manager shall ensure that User Input Events within the Active Applications Key Set will be received by the Active Applications Window at all times while that Application is Active. (See Key Sets for the definition of an Applications Key set). The Application Manager shall ensure that, when an Application is Activated, the Applications window shall be Focussed, and hence the Active Application shall be able to receive all User Input Events defined in the Applications Key Set. Whilst the Active Application shall always be running visibly in the foreground, the Application Manager shall support other Inactive Applications also running visibly in the background. The Application Manager shall ensure that Windows associated with Inactive Applications shall not be focussed, and hence Inactive Applications Shall not be able to receive User Input Events except by the mechanism described in Grabbed Keys. UIME policy shall determine whether to allow or deny Application Activation or Deactivation requests and the Application Manager shall be capable of denying requests to Activate or Deactivate Applications should it consider the state change inappropriate. An Application may become the Active Application following: The successful launch of the Application if using Immediate Activation A request to Activate the application from another software component A successful Deactivation of another Application where the Application is the highest priority alternative running Application

An Active Application may be Deactivated following : A request to Deactivate the application from another software component. A successful Activation of another Application.

Subsequent to the successful launch of an Application, the Application needs to be Activated before it can be displayed and receive User Input Events, and hence be used by the viewer. The Application Manager shall provide the following means of Activating an Application after a successful launch. Immediate Activation. In this mode, the newly launched Application shall be Activated at the point that the Application is associated with a Window and can hence be displayed. This provides support for Native Applications, and other applications which are not UIME aware, allowing them to be Activated without specifically having to request Activation. Deferred Activation. In this mode, the newly launched Application shall not be Activated until specifically requested. This supports well synchronised transitions between Applications when launching one Application from another, with the launcher Application remaining Active until such time as the launched Application specifically requests Activation, which can be deferred until that Application is fully ready to be interacted with.

5.2.5. Displaying On Top

The Application Manager shall provide means to support the display of an Application at the top of the display stack, without requiring that the Application become Active. This functionality allows Platform UI Applications to render system level graphics such as the volume bar or mute symbol, without requiring that the Platform UI Application becomes Active, and hence not stopping the Active Application from receiving User Input Events within its Key-Set, where the Platform UI Application is displayed on top of it.

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This functionality is not intended to be generally available to Applications other than Platform UI Applications.

5.2.6. Termination
The Application Manager shall provide means for Applications to request termination of themselves or any running Applications they have launched. UIME policy shall determine whether to honour Application termination requests, and as such, the UIME shall be capable of denying requests to terminate Applications should it consider the termination inappropriate. Where an Application termination request is successful, the UIME shall notify the Application that termination is imminent prior to actually terminating the Application. The UIME shall provide a mechanism whereby the imminently terminating Application and, where appropriate, its launching Application are both able to respond to this signal. Applications may be terminated under the following circumstances: Following a request to terminate the Application. Following a transition to the DEVICE_STANDBY power state. Following a request to terminate the process in which the UIME runs.

5.2.7. Key Handling

5.2.7.1. Key Sets An Applications Key Set defines the set of User Input Events, which the Application will receive when the Application is Active. Applications will not receive any User Input Events when Inactive, except where the Application has Grabbed Keys. The Application Manager shall apply a default Key Set to each new Application, and this default Key Set shall be defined in the UIME configuration. The Application Manager shall provide means for Applications to request changes to their Key Sets during their lifecycle. UIME policy shall determine whether to allow or deny these requests and the Application Manager shall be capable of denying requests to change an Application Key Sets should it consider that doing so is inappropriate. 5.2.7.2. Grabbed Keys The Application Manager shall provide means to allow Applications to define a set of User Input Events which are always routed to the requesting Application before being routed to the Active Application, even when the requesting Application is Inactive. This functionality is not intended to be generally available to Applications other than Platform UI Applications.

5.3. Externally Launched Applications

5.3.1. Overview
Externally Launched Applications are Applications, which are launched and rendered by Externally Started Application Players. The UIME shall fully support the display of Externally Launched Applications, but only provide limited support for their lifecycle Management.

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5.3.2. Application IDs

The UIME Configuration shall define a unique Application ID for each Externally Launched Application. The Externally Started Application Player shall add this pre-defined ID as a property of the Window it creates for the purpose of rendering its Applications, such that the UIME is able to identify the newly created Window as being associated with a known Application at the time of Window creation. The Externally Started Application Player shall use this ID for the purpose of identifying the Application.

5.3.3. Launching
Externally started Application Players shall be responsible for managing the launching of the Applications which they render. It follows that the UIME shall not be responsible for the launching of Applications rendered by Externally Started Application Players.

5.3.4. Activation and Deactivation

By default the Application Manager shall not Activate any Externally Launched Applications. Externally Launched Applications shall use the Deferred Activation model, and hence require that their Application Player request their Activation through the Application Manager subsequent to launch. The Application Manager shall provide the same support for the Activation and Deactivation of Externally Launched Applications as it does for Activation and Deactivation of UIME Launched Applications.

5.3.5. Displaying On Top

The UIME shall provide the same support for displaying Externally Launched Applications on top as it does for UIME Launched Applications.

5.3.6. Terminating
Externally Launched Application Players shall be responsible for managing the termination of the Applications which they render. It follows that the Application Manager shall not be responsible for the termination of Applications rendered by Externally Started Application Players.

5.3.7. Key Handling

The Application Manager shall provide the same support for key handling for Externally Launched Applications as it does for UIME Launched Applications. Externally Launched Application Players shall be able to manipulate the set of User Input Events that their Applications will receive, in the same way that UIME Launched Applications can.

5.4. Platform UI Applications

Platform UI Applications shall be configurable separately to other classes of Application. The Application Manager shall allow one or more Applications to be configured as Platform UI Applications. Typically Platform UI Applications will be configured to allow them priority access to User Input Events, priority use of CPU and RAM and increased access to system resources. All Platform UI Applications shall be UIME Launched Applications. The UIME shall provide an operating mode which shall ensure that a functioning Platform UI Application is always running, and has sufficient RAM and CPU available to it to perform core device operations in a responsive manner. The Application Manager shall be responsible for monitoring the state of the Platform UI Applications, restarting them if they terminate unexpectedly.

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6. Window Manager
6.1. Introduction
The Window Manager UIME sub-component shall provide the following key functionality: Allows the UIME to become aware that new Windows have been created both in and out of process. Allows the UIME to become aware that existing Windows have been removed and destroyed. Allows other UIME sub-components to discover the current stacking and display properties of existing Windows. Allows the UIME to become aware that stacking or display properties of existing Windows have changed. Allows other UIME sub-components to request that the stacking and display properties of existing Windows are changed. Applies UIME Policy to the stacking and display properties of existing Windows. Provides the underlying mechanisms to the Application Manager to allow it to control Application Display properties and User Input Event routing.

The Window Manager shall support a single Window being associated with a single Application. Where an Application attempts to create multiple windows, the Window Manager shall only support the display of the first Window. The Window Manager shall only support multiple Windows being created by and associated with a single Application Player, where those Windows are each created with reserved Application IDs. The Window Manager shall not support Multiple Applications or Application Players being associated with a single Window.

6.2. Window lifecycle

Application Players shall create Windows for the purpose of rendering their Application graphics to. The Window Manager shall be notified when any new Window is created by an Application Player, and use such notifications to maintain a list of existing windows. The Window Manager shall have the ability to modify the properties of any Window created by an Application Player, and have the ability to allow or deny any attempt by an Application Player to modify the properties of any of the Windows it created. When a cold-starting Application Player starts, it shall create a Window with dimensions appropriate to the Application it is required to render. The UIME shall support Application Players that create Windows either before or after they know which specific Application will be rendered to the Window. In the case that a warm-starting Application Player starts and reaches the INITIALISED state without creating a Window, when the Application Player is subsequently instructed by the UIME to render an Application, the Application Player should then create a Window with dimensions appropriate to the authored Application content dimensions.

6.2.1. Embedded Application ID for External Application Players

External Application Players must set an Application ID property on all Windows they create. The Window Manager shall be notified when an Application Player attempts to set or change the Application ID property of any Window it has created. The Window Manager shall use the SaWMan property change notification mechanism to allow it to associate each Window with the Application Player that created it.

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The Window Manager shall support Externally Started Application Players that create and destroy a Window to render each Application, and Externally Started Applications Players that re-use a single Window.

6.2.2. Input Windows

Each Application can be associated with a single Window. The Window shall be used by the Application Player both for the purposes of rendering Application graphics and handling User Input.

6.3. User Input Event dispatch

6.3.1. Window Key Set
A Windows Key Set defines the set of User Input Events which the Window will be capable of receiving when the Window is focussed. The Window Manager shall provide the underlying mechanism that allows the Application Manager to apply a default Key Set to each Application.

6.3.2. Grabbed Keys

A Windows Grabbed Key list defines the set of User Input Events that the Window will be capable of receiving whether or not it is focussed or visible. The Window Manager shall provide the underlying mechanism that allows the Application Manager to maintain the set of Grabbed Keys applicable to each Application.

6.3.3. Collector Window

The Collector Window shall receive all User Input Events not already Grabbed and consumed by a Window, and not already consumed by the focussed Window. The Window Manager shall enable one and only one Window in the stack to be the Collector Window. The Window Manager shall ensure that the Window associated with the Platform Main UI Application shall be designated the Collector Window, so that it receives all user input not consumed by the UIME itself, or any other focussed Application. This allows the Platform Main UI Application to receive User Input Events that would result in its state changing from Inactive to Active (e.g. MENU / GUIDE keys) without having to specifically Grab them.

6.3.4. UIME Key Filtering

The UIME shall have the ability to receive all User Input Events, prior to them being routed to Applications or elsewhere. The UIME shall have the ability to consume these User Input Events, preventing other Applications from receiving them, or propagating the events to Applications.

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Figure 37 : User Input Event Routing

6.4. Window Property Manipulation

The UIME shall support a range of use cases involving Application co-existence. The Window Manager shall provide other UIME sub components with the capability to modify the visual display properties of Windows, supporting a range of usage scenarios including: The capability to dull, or low-light the Windows of Inactive Applications The capability to resize and reposition Windows to support widget-like Application minimisation

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The capability to apply source and destination transformations to support both the provision of magnification functionality to enable accessibility features, and the optimisation of Application display for different output screen resolutions.

6.4.1. Opacity
The Window Manager shall be capable of modifying the opacity property of any Window created, without affecting the Application or Application Player associated with the modified Window, such that the Application will continue rendering to the Window, oblivious to the property change. As a performance optimisation, the Window Manager shall ensure that, if a Windows opacity is changed such that it becomes completely transparent, then the Windows surface will no longer be composed with the surfaces of other, visible windows in the final composition buffer.

6.4.2. Colorization
The Window Manager shall be capable of modifying the colorization of any Window created, without affecting the Application or Application Player associated with the modified Window, such that the Application will continue rendering to the Window, oblivious to the change.

6.4.3. Geometry
Application Players should create windows of a size appropriate to the authored content dimensions of the Application they are required to play. The Window Manager shall be capable of modifying the source and destination geometry of any windows created, without affecting the Application or Application Player associated with the modified Window, such that those Applications will continue rendering to the Window, oblivious to the change in geometry. 6.4.3.1. Source geometry transformation The Window Manager shall allow the specification of a sub rectangle of any Window (the Source Rectangle), which can then be scaled to the Windows original dimensions as followed.

Figure 38 : Source Geometry Transformation

6.4.3.2. Destination geometry transformation The Window Manager shall allow the specification of a rectangle to which the entire Window can be scaled (the Destination Rectangle).

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Figure 39 : Destination Geometry Transformation

6.4.3.3. Combination of Source and Destination geometry transformations The Window Manager shall support the concurrent application of both the Source and Destination Geometry Transformations to any Window, such that the source rectangle can be stretched to fill the destination rectangle.

Figure 40 : Concurrent Application of Source and Destination Geometry Transformations

6.4.4. Position and size

The Window Manager shall be capable of modifying the size and position of any Window, without affecting the Application or Application Player associated with the modified Window, such that those Applications will continue rendering to the Window, oblivious to the change.

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7. UI Manager
7.1. Introduction
The UI Manager sub-component provides overall User Interface control functionality, which is not specific to a particular Application instance.

7.2. Viewer Perceived Device State

Whilst the UIME is running, it shall control the viewer perceived operating state of the device. The device architecture intentionally separates the concepts of the actual device state and viewer perceived device. The UI Manager shall provide means to change the Viewer Perceived Operating State, and hence the transition of the perceived state of the Device. UIME policy shall determine whether requests to change the Viewer Perceived Operating State are allowed or denied.

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8. Configuration
The UIME shall support the configuration of the behaviour of aspects of its constituent components, namely the Application Player Manager, Application Manager and Window Manager.

8.1. Application Player Manager configuration

The Application Player Manager configuration shall provide configurability of aspects including: The association of Application content type to Application Player executable. The policy on the use of Warm Started Application Players. CPU and memory usage limits applied when hosted Applications are Active / Inactive.

8.2. Application Manager configuration

The Application Manager configuration shall provide configurability of aspects including: The default Key Set associated with different types of Application. The activation and deactivation behaviour for different types of Application. The magnification behaviour for different types of Application. The presentation of Applications for screens of different resolutions.

8.3. Window Manager configuration

The Window Manager shall provide configurability of aspects including: The stacking priority of Windows associated with different types of Application. The Window to which Collector status is assigned.

8.4. Application Policy

The UIME shall implement configurable Application Policy which allows the behaviour of different types of Applications to be configured and modified. For example, an individual Application may, for optimal performance, wish to specify that it is launched with a reduced Key Set, or that it should always be hidden on deactivation.

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9. Resource Management
9.1. Management of available memory
Application Players store the pixel information of their Window surfaces, and any interim surfaces used to make up the composition of those Window surfaces in System and Video memory. The UIME shall monitor the amount of System and Video Memory available, and the amount used by each Application Player. Where an Application Player attempts to create a new Window, the UIME shall ensure there is sufficient Video Memory available for Window creation, and sufficient headroom in memory availability to allow the Application which will write to the new Window to create sufficient interim graphics buffers from which the Window surface will be composed. Where the UIME determines that the memory availability is insufficient, the following remedial options shall be supported: Denial of Window creation, and subsequent termination of the associated Application Player Instructing an Application Player to terminate any number of its Applications, in order to free sufficient memory to allow the new Application Player to render its Application Termination of another Application Player, freeing sufficient memory to allow the new Application Player to render its Application

The UIME shall support the configuration of System and Video Memory allocation limits which can be applied separately to each Application Player Instance. The UIME shall provide support to allow an Application Players System and Video Memory limits to be modified during the lifecycle of the Application Player Instance. The UIME shall be capable of terminating, or suspending any Application Player that exceeds the configured memory allocation limit. The UIME shall be capable of notifying Applications and Application Players of memory usage.

9.2. Management of available CPU

The UIME shall monitor the relative CPU usage of each running Application Player. The UIME shall have the capability to limit the relative CPU usage limit for each Application Player, and dynamically change the CPU usage limits of running Application Players as appropriate. The UIME shall ensure that the Application Player hosting the Active Application is allocated sufficient CPU resource to keep the Active Application performant and responsive to User Input Events, whilst also providing sufficient CPU resource to Platform UI Applications, such that they can continue to perform background system functions reliably, and respond to Collected User Input Events while Inactive.

9.3. Watchdog functions

The UIME shall periodically monitor running Application Player processes to ensure the Applications they host remain responsive to User Input Events and system control signals. In the case where an Application has become unresponsive to User Input Events or control signals, the UIME shall have the capability to kill those processes, and reclaim any memory resources they were using. The UIME shall periodically check for the presence of a Platform UI Application and support a runtime configuration such that in the event that a Platform UI Application terminates unexpectedly, the UIME is able to restart it.

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Chapter XIV
Presentation Engine Integration

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter specifies how to integrate presentation engines into the wider software architecture for YouView devices.

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Implement the specified functionality Integrate presentation engines in the manner described

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Operating System Integration

Presentation engines shall be implemented so that they can run as a user other than the root user. If some privileges are required, this shall be done using a Linux group. It must not be possible for the presentation engine to access system memory or areas of the file system that are not directly associated with the implementation. Implementations must keep any privileges to an absolute minimum. Any shared library specified in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform that is needed by the presentation engine shall be dynamically linked. This does not preclude other libraries being statically linked; this may be appropriate if the libraries are not required by any other component on the device.

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3. Graphics Acceleration
3.1. DirectFB integration
Presentation engines shall create a DirectFB Window to render graphics. The Window shall be configured with the DSCAPS_PREMULTIPLIED surface capability. ARGB pixel format shall be used. The presentation engine shall create a window sized according to the authored dimensions of the application (where this is defined), subject to a maximum size specified when the presentation engine is launched. The presentation engine shall not manipulate any DisplayLayer directly. The presentation engine shall notify the graphics subsystem before and after any update to the DirectFB window surface. Notification of changed regions shall be provided. Note: for performance reasons, it is desirable that the regions notified as having been updated are as small as possible covering only areas that have changed, except where the number of changed regions would become excessive. Rendering of graphics into the DirectFB window need not use only the specified DirectFB APIs if other approaches achieve greater performance. For example, where a platform has OpenGL ES support, performance may be improved by using this for rendering. However, for integration with the wider graphics architecture, window updates must be notified using the specified DirectFB APIs. The sequence diagram below shows the way in which the presentation engine must use the DirectFB APIs when redrawing its window. Before making any changes, presentation engines must call IDirectFBWindow::BeginUpdates() so that window composition is synchronised in cases where multiple windows (possibly from separate processes) are being updated at the same time. So that the window stack can be composed efficiently, window updates to non-overlapping regions must be made with separate calls to IDirectFBWindow::Flip using the DSFLIP_QUEUE flag. When a complete frame of updates has been made, DirectFB must be notified using the DSFLIP_FLUSH flag and the screen composition lock released using DSFLIP_ONCE. The sequence diagram shows this happening in a separate Flip() call with a NULL region. Alternatively, these flags can be included in the Flip() call of the final window update. Use of the DSFLIP_QUEUE and DSFLIP_FLUSH flags is not required if only one rectangular region needs to be updated to create a particular output frame.

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Figure 41

3.2. Bitmap rendering

The presentation engine shall provide hardware acceleration for the graphics operations defined below using the DirectFB mechanisms specified.
Graphics operation Clearing of screen areas where required for rerendering Basic bitmap rendering DirectFB mapping FillRectangle with DSDRAW_NOFX. Blit from ARGB using DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL9 DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY shall also be set if the source pixel data is not in pre-multiplied form. StretchBlit from ARGB using 9 DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY shall also be set if the source pixel data is not in pre-multiplied form.

Scaled bitmap rendering

Where a bitmap is known to be fully opaque, DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL may be omitted to improve performance. However, DirectFB implementations are not required to be able to ignore an alpha channel when rendering ARGB bitmaps so the alpha values in the source surface must still be correct.

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Graphics operation Bitmap rendering with a colour transform where the colour components are unaffected but the alpha value is multiplied by a factor between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusive.

DirectFB mapping Blit/StretchBlit using DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL and DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORALPHA with alpha=alphaMultiplier * 255 DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY shall also be set if the source pixel data is not in pre-multiplied form. DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTCOLOR shall be set otherwise. Blit/StretchBlit using DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL and DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORIZE with the red, green and blue colours set according to colour=colourMultiplier * 255 DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY shall also be set if the source pixel data is not in pre-multiplied form. Blit/StretchBlit using DSBLIT_BLEND_ALPHACHANNEL, DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORALPHA and DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORIZE with the alpha, red, green and blue values set according to alpha=alphaMultiplier * 255 colour=colourMultiplier * 255 DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTIPLY shall also be set if the source pixel data is not in pre-multiplied form. DSBLIT_SRC_PREMULTCOLOR shall be set otherwise. Mapping to DirectFB not required. Implementations may optionally implement a two-pass rendering of these cases using DirectFB to improve performance.

Bitmap rendering with a colour transform where one or more colour components are multiplied by factors between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusive and the alpha value is unaffected.

Bitmap rendering with a colour transform where one or more colour components and the alpha value are multiplied by factors between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusive.

Bitmap rendering with a colour transform which includes any offset value or which has negative coefficients.

Table 36 : Graphics operation mappings

In all cases, the blending mode shall be DSPD_SRC_OVER (srcBlend: DSBF_ONE, dstBlend: DSBF_INVSRCALPHA).

3.3. Caching of rendered graphics

Where a presentation engine includes means by which vector graphics can be retained in a cached bitmap representation, the presentation engine should behave as follows: Cached bitmaps should not be re-created if the object is moved, or has a colour transform applied that has a DirectFB mapping listed in section 3.1. In these cases, the bitmap shall be rendered to the screen in the same way as a normal bitmap would be. Cached bitmaps should additionally be retained when the object is scaled between to between 60% and 100% of its cached size, the bitmap being rendered with a StretchBlit operation.

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4. Audio and Video

4.1. Overview
Some presentation engines have the capability to present audio and video. Where a presentation engine supports a codec required by Chapter II Consumer Device Platform, the presentation engine shall integrate with the hardware-accelerated decoders for that codec. Support for codecs not listed in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform is optional.

4.2. Presentation
If a presentation engine supports full screen video, it shall provide the capability to present the video in primary mode as described in section 4.2.1. If a presentation engine supports presentation of more than one video stream concurrently, the presentation engine shall additionally support the requirements of window mode presentation as described in section 4.2.2. If a presentation engine supports audio-only content, it shall be presented as described in section 4.2.3. Requirements for mixing presentation engine audio with other sources of audio are described in Chapter II Consumer Device Platform.

4.2.1. Primary mode

When using the primary mode for A/V presentation from a presentation engine, devices shall support all video resolutions up to the maximum HD resolution and frame rate required by Chapter II Consumer Device Platform. Multichannel audio shall also be supported in this case. Presentation of A/V in the primary mode shall be perfect with no dropped frames or other artefacts introduced during decoding. Only one media session can use the primary mode at any time. In addition, devices are not required to support primary mode presentation of A/V from a presentation engine at the same time as presenting A/V media on the main video plane outside of the presentation engine.

4.2.2. Window mode

When using the window mode for A/V presentation from a presentation engine, devices shall support video resolutions up to 720x576. However, the video presentation may degrade, for example by dropping frames. Where the video resolution is 360x288 or less, devices shall support 25 fps video without dropping more than one frame per second, provided that no other graphics plane updates are taking place. More than one media session can use the window mode. Performance may degrade further where more than one is active. Audio associated with window mode presentation is only required to support two channels.

4.2.3. Audio only content

When presenting audio only content from a presentation engine, devices are only required to support two channels.

4.3. Display composition

Primary video is always presented behind the graphics plane. Window mode video shall be displayed so that it appears immediately behind the graphics plane window in which the application is running. Because of this, window mode video will always appear on top of primary mode (or external) video. Where multiple window mode video sessions are active, the most recently created one will be on top.

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Window mode may be implemented using a DirectFB window to compose the window onto the main graphics plane, or it may use an additional video or graphics plane where the hardware has a suitable plane available. For both the primary and window modes of presentation, the presentation engine shall support positioning and rectangular masking of the video frame. All positions shall be interpreted as relative to the applications co-ordinate system.

4.4. Resource management

As well as supporting playback of A/V content using presentation-engine specific mechanisms, YouView devices support media playback using other means. Implementations shall co-ordinate access of presentation engines and other components to hardware A/V decoders as required by Chapter II Consumer Device Platform.

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5. User Input
User input events for all presentation engines are handled through DirectFB. Presentation engines receive Window events for key presses via the standard DirectFB event handling mechanisms. Chapter II Consumer Device Platform defines the way in which specific key events are mapped into the DirectFB system. Different presentation engines will have different requirements for key events. However, it is important that all applications can be controlled both from the devices standard input device and from keyboards or other accessories. The following table lists the DirectFB key codes that need to be mapped to the presentation engines internal representation for particular key functions. In many cases, there is more than one DirectFB key code that the presentation engine must recognise for a particular key function. Key symbols with a cross in the R column are those that may be found on a standard remote control; symbols with a cross in the K column are those produced by a USB keyboard or a remote control with alphanumeric keyboard. Note that some key mappings are conditional on the state of the ALT key modifier.
DirectFB key symbols
DIKS_POWER DIKS_POWER2 DIKS_SMALL_P DIKS_CAPITAL_P DIKS_ESCAPE DIKS_GOTO DIKS_MENU DIKS_EPG DIKS_SMALL_E DIKS_MUTE DIKS_HELP DIKS_CURSOR_UP DIKS_CURSOR_DOWN DIKS_CURSOR_LEFT DIKS_CURSOR_RIGHT DIKS_OK DIKS_ENTER X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X ALT modifier set

R
X X

Conditions

Key function
Standby: toggle Standby: power on

Notes

X X X X X

ALT modifier set ALT modifier set

Standby: toggle Standby: power on Close Search Menu Guide Guide Mute Help Up Down Left Right OK/Enter OK/Enter DIKS_RETURN and DIKS_ENTER are the same code

DIKS_BACK DIKS_SMALL_K DIKS_VOLUME_UP DIKS_VOLUME_DOWN DIKS_CHANNEL_UP DIKS_PAGE_UP DIKS_CHANNEL_DOWN DIKS_PAGE_DOWN DIKS_TEXT DIKS_SMALL_T DIKS_INFO DIKS_SMALL_I DIKS_ZOOM DIKS_SMALL_Z DIKS_REWIND DIKS_FASTFORWARD

X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X ALT modifier set ALT modifier set ALT modifier set X X ALT modifier set

Back Back Volume up Volume down Channel up Channel up Channel down Channel down Text Text Info Info Zoom Zoom Rewind Fast forward

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DirectFB key symbols

DIKS_STOP DIKS_RECORD DIKS_PLAY DIKS_PAUSE DIKS_NEXT DIKS_PREVIOUS DIKS_4 DIKS_6 DIKS_2 DIKS_3 DIKS_5 DIKS_1 DIKS_9 DIKS_7 DIKS_RED DIKS_GREEN DIKS_YELLOW DIKS_BLUE DIKS_SMALL_R DIKS_SMALL_G DIKS_SMALL_Y DIKS_SMALL_B DIKS_0 DIKS_9

R
X X X X X X

Conditions

Key function
Stop Record Play Pause Skip forward Skip backward

Notes

X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Key identifier is in range DIKI_KP_0 DIKI_KP_9 and ALT modifier set

Rewind Fast forward Stop Record Play Pause Skip forward Skip backward Red Green Yellow Blue

ALT modifier set

Red Green Yellow Blue

Key identifier is in range DIKI_KP_0 DIKI_KP_9 and ALT modifier not set Key identifier is in range DIKI_0 DIKI_9 (i.e. main keyboard variants)

0 to 9

Remote control keypad and emulation Direct number key entry (i.e. do not apply multitap processing)

DIKS_0 DIKS_9

0 to 9 alternative mappings to be included if the presentation engine can support two sets. Audio description

DIKS_AUDIO DIKS_SMALL_A DIKS_SUBTITLE DIKS_SMALL_S DIKS_F1 DIKS_F9 DIKS_CUSTOM0 DIKS_CUSTOM9 DIKS_F1 DIKS_F9 DIKS_CAPITAL_A DIKS_CAPITAL_Z DIKS_SMALL_A DIKS_SMALL_Z DIKS_SPACE DIKS_PARENTHESIS_RIGHT DIKS_EXCLAMATION_MARK DIKS_AT DIKS_NUMBER_SIGN DIKS_DOLLAR_SIGN DIKS_PERCENT_SIGN DIKS_CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT DIKS_AMPERSAND

X X X X X X ALT modifier set ALT modifier not set ALT modifier set

Dual function: also shift

Audio description Subtitle Subtitle Defined optional keys Dual function: also delete

Manufacturer extensions X X X X X X X X X X X X ALT modifier set ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set Manufacturer extensions A to Z a to z Space ) ! @ # $ % ^ & Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported

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DirectFB key symbols

DIKS_ASTERISK DIKS_ASTERISK DIKS_PARENTHESIS_LEFT DIKS_COLON DIKS_SEMICOLON DIKS_PLUS_SIGN DIKS_PLUS_SIGN DIKS_EQUALS_SIGN DIKS_LESS_THAN_SIGN DIKS_COMMA DIKS_UNDERSCORE DIKS_MINUS_SIGN DIKS_MINUS_SIGN DIKS_GREATER_THAN_SIGN DIKS_PERIOD DIKS_PERIOD DIKS_QUESTION_MARK DIKS_SLASH DIKS_SLASH DIKS_TILDE DIKS_GRAVE_ACCENT DIKS_CURLY_BRACKET_LEFT DIKS_SQUARE_BRACKET_LEFT DIKS_VERTICAL_BAR DIKS_BACKSLASH DIKS_CURLY_BRACKET_RIGHT DIKS_SQUARE_BRACKET_RIGHT DIKS_QUOTATION DIKS_APOSTROPHE DIKS_BACKSPACE DIKS_TAB DIKS_DELETE

K
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Conditions
Key identifier is DIKI_8 and ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_KP_MULT and ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set

Key function
* * ( : ;

Notes
Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported

Key identifier is DIKI_EQUALS_SIGN and ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_KP_PLUS and ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set

+ + = < , _

Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported

Key identifier is DIKI_MINUS_SIGN and ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_KP_MINUS and ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_PERIOD and ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_KP_DECIMAL and ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_SLASH and ALT modifier not set Key identifier is DIKI_KP_DIV and ALT modifier not set ALT modifier not set

> . . ? / / ~ ` { [ | \ } ] Backspace Tab Delete

Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported Where alphabetic entry supported

Table 37 : Key mappings

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6. Fonts
Presentation engines shall include support for rendering fonts through the DirectFB FontProvider mechanism. The set of fonts shall include the FS Me family of fonts in Light, Regular Bold and Heavy weights, each in normal and italic variants.

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7. Networking
Presentation engines shall support HTTP and HTTPS (HTTP over TLS) connections using the libcurl shared library required by Chapter II Consumer Device Platform. Caching shall be enabled for HTTP requests made by the presentation engine. Use of HTTP proxies shall be supported. The presentation engine shall support the use of the platform-specified bundle of HTTPS root certificates for server authentication. The presentation engine shall provide a mechanism for other software to be aware of the TLS connection state during the establishment of a secure connection and based on this information, to determine whether the connection should be allowed to be established. The presentation engine shall support client authentication for HTTP requests. Implementations shall use such interfaces and mechanisms necessary to protect the confidentiality of keys. The presentation engine shall add an x-youview-appid extension header field to all HTTP requests made over TLS using the presentation engines normal HTTP request APIs. The header shall not be included in HTTP requests that are not carried over a secure TLS connection. The x-youview-appid header consists of the fully-qualified application ID for the application that made the request, prefixed by a field indicating whether the application was signed by a developer or was signed for deployment. The header is formally defined as follows: X-YouView-Appid appid-value appid appchar Examples: x-youview-appid: dev:com.example.HelloWorld x-youview-appid: youview:com.example.LivePlayerApp The presentation engine shall not allow applications to set headers with header field names that begin with the string x-youview. As HTTP header field names are case insensitive, a case insensitive comparison must be used to ensure this. Presentation engines shall maintain a separate store of persistent cookies for each application. Applications shall not have access to the cookies of other applications. = "x-youview-appid" ":" appid-value = ( "dev" | "youview" ) ":" appid = 1*212appchar = ALPHA | DIGIT | "." | "-"

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Chapter XV
MHEG Integration

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1. Chapter Summary
Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration defines the way in which presentation engines must be integrated for YouView devices. MHEG is tightly integrated with broadcast functionality and is an existing well-established technology on set top box devices. This chapter describes how the integration requirements for the MHEG engine differ from those for other presentation engines. Unless otherwise stated, all the requirements of Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration also apply to MHEG. This chapter covers only integration aspects for MHEG. See also Chapter VIII Broadcast Content Delivery.

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who need to: Implement the specified functionality Integrate the MHEG presentation engine in the manner described

This chapter is not relevant for: Application Developers ISPs Content Providers

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2. Graphics Acceleration
2.1. DirectFB integration
The generic DirectFB integration requirements described in Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration apply with the following exceptions and additions: ARGB4444 pixel format shall be used. The MHEG engine shall create a 1280x720 pixel window. The MHEG engine may create at most one additional intermediate surface of the same size to implement LockScreen, plus other surfaces requiring up to a maximum of 10 Mbytes of video memory. The MHEG engine shall set the ApplicationID of its DirectFB Window to 0x80000001 using the IDirectFBWindow::SetApplicationID() DirectFB API.

2.2. Graphics rendering

The MHEG engine shall use hardware acceleration for the graphics operations as described in Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration. Note: MHEG does not require colour transforms. Overlapping visibles (as described in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 section 14.4.1) shall be implemented perfectly. The following mapping shall be used between the graphics classes provided by MHEG and DirectFB:
MHEG class Bitmap Rectangle DynamicLineArt Text, HyperText and EntryField Video Slider DirectFB mapping Blit() or StretchBlit() with clipping 4 x FillRectangle() for any border and 1 x FillRectangle() for interior. MHEG engine renders to an intermediate surface at the graphics plane resolution which is then displayed using Blit(). FillRectangle() for background and any borders; text rendering via DrawString() FillRectangle() with full transparency FillRectangle() Table 38 : Graphics operation mappings

2.3. Font rendering

The MHEG engine shall support DownloadableFontExtension. Font rendering shall be handled through the DirectFB FontProvider mechanism. The MHEG built-in font shall map to the Tiresias font rec://font/uk1 as defined by DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1 and shall also be supported in plain and square variants. Support for additional built-in fonts is not required. Note: the MHEG engine must perform logical text width calculations and text layout according to the defined rules of the DTG D-Book.

2.4. Graphics plane state

The MHEG engine shall maintain information about the smallest rectangle of its graphics plane which contains all the pixels that are not fully transparent. This information allows for optimised composition of the MHEG engines output with other graphics. When no such rectangle exists (i.e. the MHEG graphics plane is empty), the DirectFB Window shall be hidden by setting its opacity to zero.

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3. Channel Tuning
The MHEG engine shall support the LifecycleExtension, as described in DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1, section 16.2.9. Note: because of the difference between quiet and normal tunes, the receivers currently selected channel may not be the same as the viewer service context i.e. the channel presented by the receivers UI.

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4. User Input
4.1. DirectFB to MHEG key mappings
The table below defines the required mappings between DirectFB key events and MHEG UserInputEventTag values based on the requirements of Chapter XIV Presentation Engine Integration. Key symbols with a cross in the R column are those that may be found on a standard remote control; symbols with a cross in the K column are those produced by a USB keyboard or a remote control with alphanumeric keyboard. In some cases, multiple key symbols are mapped to the same MHEG key to ensure that all device functions are available from USB key events as well as remote control key events.
DirectFB key symbols DIKS_CURSOR_UP DIKS_CURSOR_DOWN DIKS_CURSOR_LEFT DIKS_CURSOR_RIGHT DIKS_OK DIKS_ENTER, DIKS_RETURN DIKS_BACK DIKS_SMALL_K DIKS_TEXT DIKS_SMALL_T DIKS_REWIND DIKS_FASTFORWARD DIKS_STOP DIKS_PLAY DIKS_PAUSE DIKS_PLAYPAUSE DIKS_NEXT DIKS_PREVIOUS DIKS_4 DIKS_6 DIKS_2 DIKS_5 DIKS_1 DIKS_3 DIKS_9 DIKS_7 DIKS_RED DIKS_GREEN DIKS_YELLOW DIKS_BLUE X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Key identifier is in range DIKI_KP_0 DIKI_KP_9 and ALT modifier set X X ALT modifier set X X ALT modifier set R X X X X X X K X X X X Conditions MHEG UserInput value Up (1) Down (2) Left (3) Right (4) Select (15) Select (15) Cancel (16) Cancel (16) Text (104) Text (104) Rewind (126) Fast Forward (125) Stop (120) Play (121) Pause (122) Play/Pause (127) Skip Forward (123) Skip Back (124) Rewind (126) Fast Forward (125) Stop (120) Play (121) Pause (122) Play/Pause (127) Skip Forward (123) Skip Back (124) Red (100) Green (101) Yellow (102) Blue (103)

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DirectFB key symbols DIKS_SMALL_R DIKS_SMALL_G DIKS_SMALL_Y DIKS_SMALL_B DIKS_0 DIKS_9

K X X X X

Conditions ALT modifier set ALT modifier set ALT modifier set ALT modifier set Key identifier is in range DIKI_0 DIKI_9 or ALT modifier not set

MHEG UserInput value Red (100) Green (101) Yellow (102) Blue (103) 5-14

Table 39 : Key mappings

4.2. User input register

The MHEG engine shall provide a mechanism to indicate the running applications key input requirements to the UI Management Engine (UIME). When an MHEG application changes the input event register, the new set of keys which the application now needs to respond to shall be communicated to the UIME. The UIME allows an application to request a particular keyset.

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5. Networking
The MHEG engine shall support the InteractionChannelExtension and ICStreamingExtension. The MHEG engine shall support HTTP and HTTPS (HTTP over TLS) connections using the libcurl shared library required by Chapter II Consumer Device Platform. TLS client authentication and the x-youview-appid header are not required for MHEG. Use of HTTP proxies shall be supported.

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6. Application Lifecycle
While the MHEG engine is running, it will either present MHEG applications on-screen or will present a full-screen transparent window, depending on whether MHEG presentation is currently visible. See also section 2.4. The following sections describe how the MHEG engine interacts with the UI Management Engine (UIME) described in Chapter XIII Consumer Device UI Management.

6.1. UIME can kill an MHEG application

The MHEG engine shall provide a mechanism for the UIME to kill the currently running MHEG application. This may be invoked when another application requires full-screen access to the graphics plane. The broadcast MHEG engine is modelled by the UIME as an ApplicationPlayer which always hosts a single Application. The MHEG engine is required to support only the overlay and kill options described in section 16.10.1 of DTG D-Book 7 Part A v1.

6.2. UIME is notified of an MHEG application

A mechanism shall be provided to allow the MHEG engine to indicate the presence of a running MHEG application to the UI Management Engine. When the MHEG engine starts, logical ApplicationPlayer, Application and Window objects are created in the UIME. The UIMEs Application object shall be initialised with the window set fully transparent. When the user changes channel and the MHEG engine detects an MHEG application in the new broadcast stream, it starts rendering the MHEG application to the window. The MHEG engine shall then request that the UIME activate the Application. If no other application is active at this point, the UIME will activate the MHEG application; otherwise it will typically deactivate it, making it visible, but darkened. Once deactivated, the MHEG application will generally be activated only when the currently active application, and any parent Applications of the currently active application, are deactivated.

6.3. UIME is notified that an MHEG application has quit

A mechanism shall be provided to allow the UIME to be notified when an MHEG application quits. The UIME will respond to this by hiding the MHEG window and updating its internal application list.

6.4. Launching other applications

The MHEG engine shall support the ApplicationLaunch resident program, which provides a mechanism for applications of any supported type to be launched from an MHEG application. ApplicationLaunch is described in more detail in Chapter VIII Broadcast Content Delivery. The MHEG engine shall respond to the ApplicationLaunchExtension(N) GetEngineSupport feature string, described in more detail in Chapter VIII Broadcast Content Delivery.

6.5. Receiving launch parameters

The MHEG engine shall support the GetLaunchArguments resident program, which provides a mechanism for the running MHEG application to receive launch parameters from the (non-MHEG) application that launched it. GetLaunchArguments is described in more detail in Chapter VIII Broadcast Content Delivery.

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Chapter XVI
Consumer Device Local Diagnostics

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter specifies the Local Diagnostics support to be built into YouView consumer devices. Local Diagnostics will provide viewers with a summary of important device information and operational behaviour, which will allow them to either solve problems themselves (self-help) or be guided to the appropriate information by contextual help, a customer support agent or the YouView customer support website. This will empower the more technically savvy viewers to help themselves, and give customer support agents and website tools the information needed to diagnose, correct, and document commonly occurring issues. Local Diagnostics will be provided as part of the Platform Main UI application and accessible through the Settings menu and/or the Help Area. This chapter describes the Local Diagnostic capability for a range of functional areas. This chapter does not provide a detailed definition of the on-screen appearance of each area of Local Diagnostics capability.

1.1. Chapter audience

This chapter is for: Device Manufacturers, who may need to: Implement Local Diagnostic screens relating to device specific functional areas as part of the Platform Main UI application.

This chapter is not relevant for: Content Providers Application Developers ISPs

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2. Local Diagnostics within the Platform Main UI

Local Diagnostics screens will form part of the Platform Main UI. These may appear as part of the Settings menu and/or the Help Area. Local Diagnostic screens may be provided by YouView or the Device Manufacturer, depending on the nature of the consumer device functionality being diagnosed. The device shall provide means for the Local Diagnostic screens to include the following information: Hardware information o Device Manufacturer name o Consumer device model and version o Consumer device serial number Software information (including date, time, version, update policy and date and time of last check see Chapter VI Consumer Device Software Management): o Core Device Software o Platform Software o Device Manufacturer-provided Device Configuration o Platform provided-Device Configuration o ISP-provided Device Configuration Storage and memory usage o Presence of media storage as part of the device o Total, used and free space available for recordings and downloads o Estimated space required for future media acquisition o RAM usage Broadcast delivery o Date and time of last check to see if the set of available broadcast services has changed o Number of broadcast services installed o Date and time that the set of installed broadcast services was updated o Target Regions receivable at the time of the last scan o Selected Target Region o Real-time presentation of signal strength and quality for a particular multiplex o Real-time presentation of signal strength and quality for a particular installed service IP network o Physical layer The device shall provide means to carry out the following diagnostic steps for the active network interface: Check whether there is an active interface in a connected state. Present the interfaces IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS server addresses, interface name and type. Check whether the configured default gateway can be reached using ICMP echo requests. Test the data transfer rate achieved by the overall IP connection.

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Chapter XVII
Consumer Device Usage And Error Reporting

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1. Chapter Summary
This chapter describes the support for usage and error reporting to be built into the YouView consumer device. This includes both the capture and backhaul of such data. Note: Nothing in this specification precludes the direct capture of usage and error reporting by a Content Providers Application and backhaul to an HTTP end-point of their own. Section 2 introduces the concepts of usage and error reporting. It also raises a number of privacy considerations which shall be observed. Note: The handling, storage and use of usage and error data once it has been backhauled so as to ensure that data protection and privacy obligations are met is beyond the scope of this specification. Section 3 describes the usage and error reporting architecture, which has the logical component Usage Collection Agent (UCA) at its core.

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2. Overview
2.1. Usage data
Usage data is a collective term for any information related to viewer activity on a consumer device. The vast majority of this data will be generated by the normal, expected operation of the device. Usage data is comprised of usage events, which in turn relate to discreet user activities and settings information stored on the device in some common configuration repository. The following examples of usage events are provided to illustrate user activities and settings/configuration information. A single on-demand asset viewing is seen as a series of events: On-demand Asset is selected to Play Player Application is launched. Buffering of On-demand Asset begins Buffer size reaches sufficient size to enable playback of an on-demand asset On-demand Asset playback begins On-demand Asset playback is paused by the viewer Playback speed set to 0x

Usage data provides a benefit to both the viewer and the platform in many ways, including: Identifying parts of the user interface that are well used and hence potential areas for further enhancement. Identifying parts of the user interface that are not well used and hence potential areas for changing or removing. Identifying navigational paths through the user interface that are well used and hence potential areas for optimisation, e.g. remove the number of button clicks. Determining the rate at which a new version of Core Device Software or Platform Software is upgraded to by the population of devices in the field. Generating most popular lists for use within the Platform Main UI.

Further benefit can be derived when usage data is combined with information about the device from which it was backhauled, e.g. model, software version etc. This can be used to determine problems specific to a particular device model or software release.

2.2. Error data

Error data is a collective term for any data generated as a result of detectable problems with a device. Error data is comprised of error events. Possible examples include: The YouView Metadata Aggregation System is unreachable. Buffer underrun on on-demand asset playback.

Error data can provide value in a raw form. However, as with usage data, further benefit can be derived when error data is combined with information about the device from which it was backhauled, e.g. model, software version etc.

2.3. Privacy considerations

As with any situation where data is to be collected, issues of trust and the privacy of the individual are important considerations. Some viewers may not wish any usage and error data resulting from their use of the device to be made available to any third party, including YouView. Alternatively, the viewer may be happy to allow data to be shared with selected third parties. The Platform Main UI shall provide means to allow the viewer to set preferences relating to the export of usage and error data: this shall not be a one-time only option, i.e. ability for the viewer to turn on/off usage capture at a later date.

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The implementation of support for usage and error data capture and export on the device needs to be robust and secure. Hence: It shall not be possible for third-party software (including Content Provider Applications) to be able to access and export usage and error data. It shall not be possible for any person with physical access to the device to be able to extract usage and error data using trivial means.

In both cases this applies to usage and event data in any form. Finally, it shall be possible for the viewer to securely clear any usage and event data held on the device. The handling, storage and use of usage and error data once it has been backhauled so as to ensure that data protection and privacy obligations are met is beyond the scope of this specification.

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3. Usage and error reporting architecture

3.1. Introduction
The architecture for usage and error event collection is based around the concept of a Usage Collection Agent (UCA) and one or more Exporters.

3.2. Usage Collection Agent

The UCA shall be responsible for: Capturing relevant usage and error events on the device. Securely storing usage and event data on the device and deleting it once it is no longer needed. Usage and error data shall not be stored permanently on the device. Individual usage and error events shall not remain stored on the device if: o The event has been backhauled by all relevant Exporters, or o The events age (i.e. time since capture) exceeds a defined maximum, or o The limit of available storage for usage and error events has been reached, in which case data shall be deleted in a first in, first out basis. Supporting the clearing of stored usage and event data. Making captured usage and event data available to Exporters as appropriate. The UCA shall implement a mechanism where high priority events are sent to Exporters immediately, whilst low priority events are stored locally until needed by the relevant Exporter(s).

3.3. Exporters
It shall be possible to configure the UCA to send usage and error data to a number of Exporters on the device. Each Exporter can be tailored to the requirements of a specific external interface. These interfaces are the gateways through which usage data can be backhauled from the device to some remote server. The Exporter is a translator between the internal private format used by the UCA for the capture and temporary storage of usage and error data, and the format which is expected by the endpoint exposed by the backhaul interface.

3.3.1. Export control

The Platform Main UI shall provide viewers with the ability to disable usage and error reporting on the device, either completely or on a per-Exporter basis. Note: The specific design of the UI presented to the viewer to set these preferences is out of scope of this specification.

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Chapter XVIII
Annexes

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Annex A

Related Documents

DTG, D-Book, 7 Part A v1, March 2011. ETSI TS 102 578, PowerLine Telecommunications (PLT); Coexistence between PLT Modems and Short Wave Radio broadcasting services, v1.1.8, 2007-08. IEEE 802.3, LAN/MAN CSMA/CDE (Ethernet) Access Method, 2008. IEEE 802.11g, Wireless Local Area Networks, 2003. IEEE 802.11n, Wireless Local Area Networks, 2009. IETF RFC 1738, Uniform Resource Locators (URL), December 1994 IETF RFC 2109, HTTP State Management Mechanism, February 1997. IETF RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, June 1999. IETF RFC 2617, HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, June 1999. IETF RFC 3376, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3, October 2002. IETF RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, January 2005 IETF RFC 3852, Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), July 2004. IETF RFC 4294-bis, IPv6 Node Requirements, March 2010. IETF RFC 5280, Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile, May 2008 IEC 62455, Internet protocol (IP) and transport stream (TS) based service access, June 2007. W3C, HTML 4.01 Specification, December 1999 W3C Recommendation, Timed-Text Markup Language (TTML), v1.0, November 2010. Marlin Developer Community, Marlin Simple Secure Streaming Specification, version 1.0. Marlin Trust Management Organisation, Marlin Client Adopter agreement.

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Annex B
Term Access Services Application Application Player Core Device Software DVR EPG ISP Platform Platform Applications Platform Configuration Platform Main UI Platform Software Platform UI Applications System Memory Video Memory VOD

Glossary
Explanation Subtitles and audio description Packaged and managed software that provides functionality to consumers Runtime environment for the execution of Applications. Examples could be Flash player, MHEG engine, W3C browser Software that is managed by the Device Manufacturer Digital Video Recorder records television broadcasts to local storage such as a hard drive Electronic Programme Guide an on screen listings for scheduled television Internet Service Provider an organisation that provides a user with access to the Internet The environment in which the device is deployed Applications that are managed by the Platform Operator or Device Manufacturer Describes a set of parameters that allow the behaviour of the device to be configured after deployment without requiring the software to be updated The Application that provides the core user interface for the device Software that is managed and updated by the Platform Operator Applications that are managed by the Platform Operator General purpose memory available to the Application CPU that may be used to hold graphics Memory accessible directly by graphics acceleration and graphics display hardware Video On Demand the facility to permit a viewer to watch/listen to video/audio on demand

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