The ASSET Architecture - Integrating Media Applications and Products through a Unified API

Mario Cordeiro (1) , Paula Viana (1) , J Ruela , Mathurin Body (2) , Bernard Cousin (3, 2) , Damien Bommart , Guilia Ferrari , Massimo Strambini , Walter Bernet (4) , Edgar Muller (4) , Marc Laurentin , Bernard Algayres , Serge Daulard , Ingo Hoentsch , Tobias Marx

1 INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science [Porto]
2 ARMOR - Architectures and network models
3 UR - Université de Rennes
4 DALET-A.N.N [Muenchen]

Applications and products currently available for the broadcasting market are vertically integrated or proprietary. They are based on components requiring specific and costly development to interoperate and do rely typically on a single manufacturer or system integrator. Hence they are not fully compliant with broadcasters' requirements. ASSET is a European funded project whose main goal is to overcome the limitations of custom specific implementations of a digital system for TV content creation. These limitations are generally due to the misfit of interfaces between software layers, proprietary APIs of equipment from different vendors and the lack of a generalised middleware for multimedia content management with openly defined interfaces. Besides presenting the ASSET proposed architecture and concepts, this paper describes the prototype under development to test and demonstrate the project proposals.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Mario Cordeiro, Paula Viana, J Ruela, Mathurin Body, Bernard Cousin, et al.. The ASSET Architecture - Integrating Media Applications and Products through a Unified API. International Broadcasting Conference (IBC 2003), Sep 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ⟨hal-01503088⟩