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Middleware feature development and application integration for hybrid custom Linux TV platform

For European television platform operator

Media Operator Smart TV RDK

Challenge

Porting and certification of the YouTube version supporting Cobalt browser on the custom customer OS required a skilled experienced team to extend the customer’s own capability. 
PlayReady expertise required to resolve a long-standing backlog of related issues.
Regression testing functions were inefficient and didn’t provide full platform coverage.
The customer was not geared up to work with external 3rd parties.

Solution

Consult Red team successfully integrated and certified the latest version of YouTube to the customer OS platform.
PlayReady DRM backlog issues were successfully resolved.
A suite of regression tests updated and enhanced to give full platform coverage. 
Assisted in ways of working and process improvements to enable remote 3rd party development.
Consult Red team initially requested for 3 months and remained in place, supporting new features and functionality, for 2.5 years.

Learnings

Experience gained in porting to custom Linux platforms.
Enhanced PlayReady DRM and Broadcom SoC development experience and capabilities.
Development of trust is essential to removing obstacles in working with 3rd parties and gaining appropriate access and resources.

Impact and value

Successful integration and certification of YouTube to the customer platform

Cleared longstanding PlayReady DRM issue backlog

Flexible project acceleration on demand

Impact and value

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