FOKUS Demonstrations

“Screens, screens, screens" was the motto of the demo slots as it was for the entire symposium. During all coffee breaks you had the opportunity to experience the latest R&D results of the FOKUS competence centre Future Applications and Media (FAME). We offered 30 minutes tours to our Future Applications and Media Lab and TV Lab where you can see how we develop and test new software components in concert with state-of-the-art client and server infrastructure.

FAMIUM
Fraunhofer FOKUS

Demo 1: FAMIUM Multiscreen

Imagine your TV informs you about available additional content to the TV program you are just watching. Imagine the notification is sent to your mobile or tablet automatically and you can access the content just by clicking on the notification. This is possible using HbbTV on TV and FAMIUM.browser on your mobile device conforming W3C standard: Webscreen. The connection and synchronisation of both devices is done automatically via Network Service Discovery using UPnP. We demonstrates this scenario in a showcase that contains additional information for an advertisement that is shown in a commercial break during a HbbTV program on a second screen device. In addition to that we will demonstrate adaptive streaming (DASH) based dynamic ad-insertion to splice ad videos into the actual play-out stream directly.

Research & Development
Fraunhofer FOKUS 

Demo 2: FAMIUM.wall – DASH on Video Wall

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) is the upcoming streaming standard for the Web and will harmonize Internet based video delivery among various end systems. Our FAMIUM.wall solution uses DASH to stream one videos to many clients keeping the playback completely synchronized between all screens. We demonstrate to stream a 4k video - split in four or nine HD videos - playing synchronously across the screens.

Demo 3: FAMIUM DRM

Commercial solutions for playing protected content in a browser require a plug-in.

We demonstrates a solution which is based on the upcoming W3C standards Media Source Extensions (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). The FAMIUM.browser which supports these standards is able to stream Microsoft PlayReady DRM-protected videos. The demonstration also visualises the process of key exchange and decryption between browser, CDM and CDMI. The CDMI is an open interface for accessing a platform DRM Content Decryption Module (CDM) and is not specific to PlayReady, Microsoft’s DRM. It can be used by a User-agent to expose CDM functionality as specified by the W3C HTML Encrypted Media Extensions without licensing DRM technology.

FAME MWS14 Demos Bild Demo 4 DASH DRM screen shot 2014 
Fraunhofer FOKUS

Demo 4: Hands on e2e DASH and DRM (FAMIUM.DRM: behind the screens)

During this demonstration we introduce our tool chain for DASH and DRM media creation and streaming. The demonstration features video capturing followed by DASH conversion / segmentation and protection by PlayReady Microsoft DRM. You will see how to operate our tools to create PlayReady protected DASH content to be streamed be am HTTP-Server to be consumed be State-of-the-art mobile and fixed devices.

FAME MWS14 Demos Bild Demo5 Raspberry-Pis 
Fraunhofer FOKUS

Demo 5: FAMIUM – Live DASH transcoding on low-budget Raspberry Pis

Raspberry Pis are low-budget devices that leverage hardware capabilities for encoding and decoding. Based on our tool chain for DASH and DRM content creation, we created specific extended builds that can be run on Raspberry Pis to generate live and on-demand content. We showcase live transcoding and segmentation of a plugged camera. The generated DASH output will be multi-bitrate audio and video. The whole architecture consists of mutliple Pis that are interconnected and jointly create mutliple bitrate representations of the input signal.

Recommendation as a Service 
Fraunhofer FOKUS

Demo 6: RaaS – Recommendation as a service

This demo will introduce our recommendation engine, algorithms and framework to you. RaaS is using those components offering a comfortable interface enabling software developers to create manage and deploy custom made recommendation engine designed for certain tasks and objectives. You will see how to create a Recommendation Engine and how to apply it to a certain application domain.