Middleware feature development and application integration for hybrid custom Linux TV platform
For European television platform operator
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.
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.
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