DVB Engines and Applications

This DVB-related line of product is based on Comedia, a robust and field-proven DVB/PVR engine.

Comedia may me embedded within various devices (set-top boxes, integrated digital TV sets, personal video recorders, etc.), deployed over various networks (cable, satellite, terrestrial), integrated with various security solutions (embedded Conditional Access Systems, DVB-CIv1, CI Plus), and ported on top of various chipsets (STMicroelectronics, Trident/NXP, etc.).

Comedia comes with a companion application development environment (dubbed Maestro) that includes a WYSIWIG authoring tool.

The diagram below gives an overview of the architecture of the product line.

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Maestro: the Companion Toolkit for Defining the Device User Interfaces (UIs)

Maestro gathers a set of tools that allow to develop the UIs of the device built-in applications.

As depicted in the diagram, Maestro is made of three components:

• Maestro Composer, a WYSIWIG, easy-to-use, desktop-based authoring tool that uses an XML format to store the applications
• Maestro Generator, a translation tool that transforms the XML format into a binary format ready for downflashing the device
• Maestro Player, an application engine that executes and renders the applications on the target device