Christoph Ziegler – IRT Lab

Streaming on Rails — Episode 01: Improving VoD for Train Passengers

Christoph Ziegler — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:14:01 +0000

In the EU-funded R&D project 5G-VICTORI we aim to improve the availability and quality of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming services (such as “Mediathek”) for train passengers. In a series of articles we want to keep you informed about our activities in this area. In this article we explain the technical approaches we are investigating. How can ...

IRT’s Universal Launcher

Christoph Ziegler — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:47:55 +0000

IRT has developed a concept which allows HbbTV apps of different broadcasters to push links to websites or mobile apps to companion screens. These may provide additional information on a show, which viewers can retrieve during or after. A prototype app called Universal Launcher was developed by IRT to showcase the posibilities. Communication between the HbbTV ...

The Tinkered TV Companion

Christoph Ziegler — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:54:06 +0000

What we’ve done We have built a companion-screen application for the children’s quiz programme “1, 2 oder 3“. The app allows children at home to play along, just like the children in the show, using a floor pad. The floor pad uses a Raspberry PI single-board computer to connect to an HbbTV application on the ...

2-IMMERSE MotoGP multiscreen experience with HbbTV 2 retail devices

Christoph Ziegler — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 06:58:16 +0000

Partners in the EU-funded project 2-IMMERSE have developed a platform for multiscreen services. The architecture of the 2-IMMERSE platform has been built around the HbbTV 2 specification, mainly using the new companion-screen protocols for app-to-app communication and inter-device media synchronisation. At the beginning of the project there were no TV sets implementing the HbbTV-2 standard available. ...

Synchronised Holograms

Christoph Ziegler — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:01:00 +0000

Synchronising an augmented-reality experience to a broadcast programme on an HbbTV 2 device Version 2 of the HbbTV standard, introduces several new features. Probably the most interesting set of features target at combining mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones with HbbTV devices. These so-called companion-screen features allow creating distributed media experiences, in the sense ...

Discovery, Launch and App-to-App Communication in ARD-Mediathek

Christoph Ziegler — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:32:59 +0000

In cooperation with ARD-Mediathek we extended the Android version of the VoD portal of the ARD network to demonstrate companion-screen features of the HbbTV 2.0 specification. Users of can launch a desired video clip on a desired HbbTV 2.0 device and remotely control the playback of the video on the TV from the mobile app. The app makes use of ...