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An open, standards based platform for building interactive television, video on
demand and video networking solutions.
The Sun Media Appliance Platform is a set of three channel-ready
configurations of Sun systems and iForce(SM) partner solutions for
the interactive television, Video on Demand and broadband Network
Equipment Provider markets. Sun along with partner companies are
working together to develop a value-priced, scalable foundation that
will allow NEPs, content providers and network operators to rapidly
build and deploy interactive services based on multi-vendor open
interfaces. The Sun Media Appliance Platform will use the Java
Stream Assembly APIs being developed through the Java Community
Process (JSR 158) which is led by Sun.
The Java Stream Assembly Application programming interface is a set
of Java APIs for the creation, management, and processing of
broadcast and interactive stream multiplexes. The proposed Java
Stream Assembly API is an interface to support real time assembling
of audio, video, and generic data streams. This API would provide a
unified vendor neutral interface for (typically) server applications
to create and modify multiplexed real time media streams over
broadcast or IP networks. The goal of this API is to provide
multiplexing applications a unified interface irrespective of whether
the multiplexing functionality is implemented in hardware or software
and irrespective of the type of data transport (broadcast, IP, etc.).
A multi program or a single program multiplexed MPEG-2 Transport
Stream is usually the output of a multiplexer. This API would allow
adding, dropping, and changing the components that make the
multiplexed stream. This API will enable discovery, setup,
monitoring, and start/stop control of the multiplexer components.
Discovery, selection, and manipulation of inputs and outputs of the
multiplexer components will be supported by this API.
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