Primetime TVSDK features

Last update: Mon Oct 02 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

TVSDK for iOS includes a variety of features that you can implement in your players.

TVSDK capabilities:

VOD and live/linear playback
- Management of the playback window, including methods that play, stop, pause, seek, and retrieve the playhead position
- Support for full-event replay
- Closed captioning (608, 708, WebVTT) and alternate forms of audio for increased accessibility
- Controls for text styling in captions
- DVR capability, fast forward, and fast rewind (the latter two are known as trick-play mode)
- Adaptive bit rate (ABR) logic and initial set up of ABR controls
- Live manifest failover support
- Adjustable playback buffers
- Fragment duration, size, and time-to-download tracking support
Advertising
- VPAID 2.0
- Client-side ad stitching
  - Seamless ad insertion, including support for VAST/VMAP
  - Support for custom cue tags for ads
  - Support for marking, replacing, and deleting C3 ads
  - Customizable content/ad insertion workflow including blackout signaling
Content protection
- Access to digital rights management (DRM)-related services
- Playback of HLS streams unencrypted or with Protected HTTP Live Streaming (PHLS)
- Resolution-based output control, based on DRM policy
Video and ad tracking
- QoS event tracking
- Notifications that help TVSDK and your application to communicate asynchronously about the status of videos, advertisements, and other elements. Notifications also log activity.
Logging
- Debug logging
- Tracking support for fragment duration, size, and time-to-download.

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