Content distribution for TV recording, the BBC case (BBC)

Video of this demonstrator available here

This is the so called AXMEDIS 4HOME demonstrator in which AXMEDIS framework is used to support the distribution of content over internet and broadcast channels to a rights-managed platform within the home. The 4HOME demonstrator uses the DRM support of AXMEDIS to enable the rightful use of content distributed over the Internet, or on content derived from Free to Air broadcast content in the home and supplemented with other services over the Internet.


Content is distributed from a central 4HOME AXMEDIS content factory. This is then adapted to form licensed, registered AXMEDIS objects for distribution over IP. Similar content is also made available over DVB-T transport, unprotected. Content is also distributed via P2P AXEPTool.
Content is protected and registered within the central content factory. Content packaged for the user into enhanced presentations on the user client are bound to the user’s home domain or given an AXMEDIS license from the content factory and registration facility. Mother licenses are produced using the AXMEDIS Editor and associated with the AXMEDIS Object. The AXMEDIS Ontology is used to check that the creation of licenses is consistent with the corresponding user and AXMEDIS Object. The final licenses are produced on demand.
The 4HOME demonstrator uses the AXMEDIS home domain concept to license content to any device within a user home domain. Devices are registered in the AXMEDIS PMS Domain Home and AXCS.
Content is made available over IP in AXMEDIS format, selectable by the end user from an appropriate user interface. In addition, new AXMEDIS objects can be made on the home client from a combination of the Free to Air broadcast content and further enhancements delivered over the protected IP channel. The Free to Air content (DVB-T) can be selected for capture and enhancement through the AXMEDIS viewer.
The distribution of AXMEDIS content over the internet to the home users is achieved over the AXMEDIS AXMEDIA P2P tool for P2P distribution of protected content to the home. The AXMEDIS client can retrieve programme description metadata from a metadata server using a simple protocol and delivering metadata in the TV-Anytime format.
The Protected content and access to metadata is over the public internet using the AXMEDIS P2P tool and simple HTTP respectively. The broadcast demo is a pre-prepared MPEG2 transport stream with broadcast style programmes. Some of these, and others, are available for download over P2P as protected objects.

o requirements and use cases of the 4HOME take up, demonstrators of BBC, TI, SDAE, including domains, AXMEDIS for broadcasting, and OMA integration and distribution