1. Who do developers contact to become certified to use the TV WebAPI?
2. I assume Shih-Chiang you refer to [1] and the Gecko buffer diagram
shown on that page. Are you telling me (us) that we may use the Gecko
framebuffer like this...
<pre>
-----------------------------------
| TV |
| |
--------------------------------- |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |------------------------------|--|
| |
| .html |
|--------------------------------|
</prey>
<pre>
-----------------------------------
| ------- TV |
| |.html | |
| -------- |
| |
| ----------------------------- |
| |.html | |
| |----------------------------| |
|---------------------------------|
</prey>
My apology if diagrams get unformatted but it is very important that I (we)
understand what we can and cannot do
because doing this wrong can be a violation of law and copyright of the TV
broadcasters
Clinton
[1] TV broadcast streams on Firefox OS products
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/TVs_connected_devices/TV_broadcast_streams_Firefox_OS
From: Shih-Chiang Chien [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 10:09 AM
To: Clinton Gallagher
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Picture-in-Picture Panasonic TV platforms
Hi Clinton,
Glad to hear people are interesting in building TV apps! Here is the answer for
your questions:
1. TV WebAPI is not provided to 3rd party application due to the current
industry consensus about restricting the broadcasting content to be "borrowed"
by 3rd party app. Therefore, you can only create such kind of digital signage
player as a certified app, which needs to be negotiated with TV manufacturer.
2. TV overlay can be resized according to the size of <video> which associated
to the TV stream.
Hope this help. :)
Best Regards,
Shih-Chiang Chien
Mozilla Taiwan
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Clinton Gallagher <[email protected]>
wrote:
I recall reading FxOS could access the hardware and support
Picture-in-Picture (PIP) on TV devices.
The following diagram is my kind of PIP: The Holy Grail for connected TV
development
<pre>
------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| TV | .html |
| | |
------------------------------
| .html |
------------------------------
</pre>
* Can I (we) code this type of "digital signage" application on the
Panasonic TV sets now?
* If not implemented now are the core FxOS developers working to get this
type of synergy implemented?
My understanding of FxOS TV broadcast streaming [1] suggests --no not now--
I (we) cannot have the holy grail --yet-- because rescaling the size of the
broadcasted TV stream is already being done in legacy hardware and the
manufacturers do not have an incentive to adopt a new way of doing so.
Is this a correct assessment and if so when if ever will we get the holy
grail which currently can be done spending ~$1k for an accessory in a box
called a digital signage media player.
Clinton Gallagher
[1] TV broadcast streams on Firefox OS products
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/TVs_connected_de
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/TVs_connected_devices/TV_broadcast_streams_Firefox_OS>
vices/TV_broadcast_streams_Firefox_OS
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