Smart Television application development

Abstract

The topic of this thesis is the development of the smart television application providing streaming services such as live television, movies, tv shows and radios that run on HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) and Smart TV. The professional background needed for the application contains an understanding of HbbTV and Smart TV development, programming language skills in JavaScript, familiarity with the Vue framework and third party players that support adaptive media formats. The main objective of the thesis was to develop a television application that allows the user to experience and watch the VOD (Video on Demand), live streaming and radio with different media formats (MPEG-DASH, HLS and Smooth Streaming) and search the program and add to their favorite list. In addition, the player interface is very important for the user experience so the application contains the thumbnail images on the progress bar, the subtitles and the full control buttons for the player.