Learn all about media delivery, processing and playback in today’s software stacks, and become able to implement your own media stack.

Course gives an introduction into how media content is created, distributed, received, processed and played back in today’s Digital TV and multimedia standards, applications and software stacks. Specific consideration is given to reception stage, including the understanding of demultiplexing, descrambling and decoding phases and their integration via layered software stack and media frameworks into modern application runtimes. Course has a practical dimension, with laboratory exercises in Android TV or HTML-based runtimes, which are most commonly used in today’s media receivers.

Course topics:

Introduction to digital TV and multimedia
Media receiver architecture
Multimedia distribution, reception and demultiplexing
Media device software platform
DTV middleware and application layer
Internet TV and IPTV
Content protection and conditional access
Video compression and coding formats
Application layer architectures
Application layer based on W3C standards
User Experience in media application design