Click2Movie: Personal-customized content authoring service in IPTV platform

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for personal-customized content authoring service, that is, C1ick2Movie, in IPTV platform that a user terminal unit like PC or STB sends various kinds of multimedia files like music, images or movie-clips to the personal-customized contents authoring server located at remote place, the remote server in real-time makes the personal-customized contents of the multimedia object files transmitted from a user terminal, and then retransmits them to the predefined relevant service group through IPTV personal channel by IPTV network provider. Personal-customized content authoring service supplies automatic multimedia editing/composition service based on DirectShow Editing Service in Microsoft, and offers unicast, multicast and groupcast service for a large number of interested groups with IPTV service broker(CUBE), channel initiation protocol(CIP), and service management module (iSMS) through IPTV personal channel.