2011-06-22, 12:30
Hello guys.
Some of you would know that in italy we are going to turn-off normal analogic television and switch to the DVB-T Standard.
But Italy is a strange place, a nation with 7 national televisions but hundreds of local broadcasters.
So this epic switch-off would be a traumatic experience for lot of them. Economically and psicologicaly.
Every "traditional" local broadcaster need to fill the entire dvb-t channel (24Mbps) with 6 programs (by legal obligation) or its assigned (but paid million of euros) frequencies would be reassigned to more "efficent" (read berlusconian) brodasters.
In this optic i'm going to develop an open source television architecture, with media ingesting, MAM (media asset management), playlist and commercials managemant (all with a web-interface), EPG insertion via OpenCaster , and video playback server able of logo insertion.
Everything in this production chain would be open and (if possible) linux based. Ingesting cards would be hauppauge PVR 150 cards (250-250-500 also) or blackmagic DeckLink Studio (all with linux support), DB would be postgresql, Apache webserver, python as reference language but others are welcomed and (i think) a customized XBMC for the playback.
XBMC can connect to remote media storage, XBMC can handle a large number of different codecs, XBMC could overlay graphic (OSD), XBMC could scale SD media to HD output or HD media to SD output. XBMC runs on multiple platform, from economic beagleboard to an high end linux box with flaming nvidia board.
All those features would be interesting for a playback server.
The project is going to start in a pure open style culture, so stay tuned and ... every suggestion would be apreciated (also the name for the project
)
Some of you would know that in italy we are going to turn-off normal analogic television and switch to the DVB-T Standard.
But Italy is a strange place, a nation with 7 national televisions but hundreds of local broadcasters.
So this epic switch-off would be a traumatic experience for lot of them. Economically and psicologicaly.
Every "traditional" local broadcaster need to fill the entire dvb-t channel (24Mbps) with 6 programs (by legal obligation) or its assigned (but paid million of euros) frequencies would be reassigned to more "efficent" (read berlusconian) brodasters.
In this optic i'm going to develop an open source television architecture, with media ingesting, MAM (media asset management), playlist and commercials managemant (all with a web-interface), EPG insertion via OpenCaster , and video playback server able of logo insertion.
Everything in this production chain would be open and (if possible) linux based. Ingesting cards would be hauppauge PVR 150 cards (250-250-500 also) or blackmagic DeckLink Studio (all with linux support), DB would be postgresql, Apache webserver, python as reference language but others are welcomed and (i think) a customized XBMC for the playback.
XBMC can connect to remote media storage, XBMC can handle a large number of different codecs, XBMC could overlay graphic (OSD), XBMC could scale SD media to HD output or HD media to SD output. XBMC runs on multiple platform, from economic beagleboard to an high end linux box with flaming nvidia board.
All those features would be interesting for a playback server.
The project is going to start in a pure open style culture, so stay tuned and ... every suggestion would be apreciated (also the name for the project
)
