Market-Leading DLNA Technology Component Solution for Consumer Electronics and Home Networks
NetFront™ Living Connect is a market-leading Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) Technology Component™ solution that enables device manufacturers to quickly and efficiently implement services that support DLNA standards on consumer electronic devices including mobile phones, digital cameras, printers, DVD players, game consoles, digital TVs, set-top boxes, network attached storage (NAS) boxes and more.
NetFront Living Connect has achieved an extensive track record of successful DLNA Certified® device deployments through a variety of consumer electronic devices offered by leading manufacturers in markets throughout the world. NetFront Living Connect is optimized for embedded devices and features high portability and a flexible modularity that allow it to function with any OS or CPU while also providing for easy customization.
NetFront Living Connect is packed with features which ensure that ACCESS can provide device manufacturers, content providers and ultimately end-users with services that provide comprehensive support for even the very latest DLNA standards. The most notable features include a new Media Processing Engine, which provides support for more than 120 file types, Smart Media Manager and Remote User Interface. The combination of ACCESS' NetFront™ Browser, NetFront™ Widgets and NetFront Living Connect provides a turnkey, commercially deployable solution that supports the DLNA Remote User Interface standard.
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About DLNA
As a DLNA Promoter member, ACCESS plays a leading role in accelerating the launch of products that meet the advanced DLNA guidelines. Additional information about DLNA is available on the DLNA website. To view videos demonstrating DLNA use cases, please go to the DLNA video channel.
Benefits | NetFront Living Connect
NetFront Living Connect for Service Providers
Enables multi-room viewing via standardized technology
Provides cost savings by leveraging robust DLNA specifications
One-stop solution for operators
Quad-play multi-screen support thanks to NetFront Living Connect’s modular architecture
Provides content Protection using DTCP-IP
NetFront Living Connect for Device Manufacturers
Shorter time-to-market with integration-ready Software Development Kit
Full-featured DLNA and home networking solution
Future-proof with support for advanced DLNA use cases
Market-proven and commercially deployed
NetFront Living Connect For Consumers
Supports approved access to content on mobile devices (e.g. browse photos or music while sitting on sofa)
Includes DLNA Certified® application to control DTVs, set-top boxes and other devices
Allows sharing of photos with friends just by connecting to the local Wi-Fi® network
Enables immediate printing from mobile devices or DTVs without installing printer drivers
NetFront Living Connect for Automotive Market
Enables media sharing in the car
Connects personal devices to car infotainment systems
Allows streaming of media from rear to front seat
New Features | NetFront Living Connect
Remote User Interface
Remote User Interface provides the ability to share user interfaces inside a DLNA network. It enables multi-room viewing of content and user interfaces and a consistent interface experience across all consumer electronic devices in the network.
Smart Media Manager
The Smart Media Manager is a media server management resource with a browser-based interface that includes features such as advanced content search via content metadata, parental guidance and security settings. It provides an easy-to-use configuration tool, making it possible to define customized rules to access and share content within the home network.
New Media Processing Engine
Reflecting the market reality of the availability of several different video/audio codecs and corresponding container formats, NetFront Living Connect comes with a new media processing engine that supports more than 120 different file and container formats. With support for all common file formats NetFront Living Connect also dramatically improves media indexing performance providing a significantly better user experience.
Beyond DLNA
NetFront Living Connect is ready for Windows® 7 logo program certification for NetMedia Server and includes compliance with Xbox® Media Player.
Available Packages and Architecture | Ready for Integration
Operating Systems
NetFront Living Connect is available as complete platform or as pre-ported Software Development Kit for various platforms.
Linux® SDK
Google® Android SDK
Apple® iOS™ SDK
Microsoft® Windows® SDK
Source code SDK for all C compliant platforms
NetFront Living Connect has been ported to various platforms and reference code can be provided for each platform. Each SDK version has gone through DLNA CTT testing and is ready for integration. The SDK comes with sample application code, rich documentation for APIs and platform integration and some reference code for target platforms.
Module Diagram | NetFront Living Connect
Advantages | NetFront Living Connect
Optimized for Embedded Information Appliances
NetFront Living Connect was designed from its initial planning stage as an optimal solution for resource-limited embedded environments. Its high portability, which allows it to function with any OS or CPU, also means that it can be seamlessly embedded in a wide variety of devices.
Linking With ACCESS Technology
By integrating with ACCESS’ NetFront™ Browser (which includes support for Ajax and RSS) or NetFront™ Media Player, NetFront Living Connect can be deployed as a total solution.
Next Generation DLNA
NetFront Living Connect includes Remote User Interface, DTCP-IP Content protection, has extensive support of media types and lays the groundwork for next generation DLNA standards like Content Synchronization and Scheduled Recording.
Flexible Modular Structure
NetFront Living Connect's porting layer (Target Adaptation Module) is adaptable to a wide variety of hardware and OS environments.
Technology | NetFront Living Connect
Delivery Package
Binary or Source Code Software Development Kit (SDK)
iOS and Android SDK available
Platform Independent Code
Sample Applications
Porting Layer Source Code
DLNA Device Classes
Digital Media Server (DMS)
Digital Media Player (DMP)
Digital Media Controller (DMC)
Digital Media Renderer (DMR)
Mobile Digital Media Server (M-DMS)
Mobile Digital Media Player (M-DMP)
Mobile Digital Media Controller (M-DMC)
Mobile Digital Media Uploader (M-DMU)
Mobile Digital Media Downloader (M-DMD)
DLNA Device Capability
Push Controller (+PU+)
Upload Controller (+UP+)
Download Controller (+DN+)
Upload Sync Controller (+UPSYNC+)
Download Sync Controller (+DNSYNC+)
Printing Controller (+PR1+), (+PR2+)
Remote User Interface (+RUIPL+)
Remote User Interface (+RUISRC+)
Other Functions
UPnP AV Stack
SOAP, SSDP, HTTP (DLNA supported), Parser
DLNA QoS
Thumbnail Generation (Video and Pictures)
Subtitle Support
Auto Playlist Generation
Meta Data extension via External Server (e.g. Album cover)
Geolocation Support
Optional Modules
DTCP-IP Link Layer security
Smart Media Manager
Content Synchronization Module
Remote User Interface Module (Bundle possible with NetFront Browser)
Scheduled Recording Service
Ready for Windows® 7 logo program certification for NetMedia Server
Compliant to XBox Media Player
Open Source Modules (Platform requirement or provided by ACCESS)
SQLite Library
XML Parser (Open Source Expat)
FFMPEG (LGPL) Media Format Extension (Optional)
IJGJPEG Library
Documents
Outline Manual
Porting Manual & Peer API Specification
Sample Application API Specification
Device Classes API Specification
Smart Media Manager (SMM)
Fast File Indexing
SQL Database
Meta Data Enhancements
Integrated WEB UI
Security Features (Parental Control)
File/Folder Sharing Settings
Media Processing Engine (MPE)
120+ Media Formats
Video and Picture Thumbnails
Embedded Subtitle Support
Geolocation Support
Playlist support
.m3u
.pls
m3u8
wpl
DMS Media Center Features
DMS Standard Features
New File Formats and DLNA profiles
MPE (Media Processing Engine)
All Image and Video Thumbnails
MPE Time Seek
Normal + Embedded Subtitles
Auto Playlist Generation
Upload/Download Capability
Parental Guidance
Web UI
DMS Standard Features
Mandatory DLNA 1.5 Profiles
DivX within AVI Supported
Normal Subtitle Support
Full DLNA Search
Flash ROM Memory Requirements (Example for Linux® OS)
The application footprint is dependent on the target platform and compile options. The figures below can be taken as an example for a Linux build. Figures include SQLite library, EXPAT, ijgjpeg lib, FFMPEG dynamically linked* (DMP, DMR, DMC command-line application without Mediaplayer).
BINARY
DMS Standard
DMS Media Center*
DMP cmdline
DMR cmdline
DMC
Icon + XML
Stripped
1.7 MB
2.2 MB
1.3 MB
1.1 MB
1 MB
60 kB
LZMA
732 kB
875 kB
540 kB
476 kB
427 kB
45 kB
* Typically the flash requirement for FFMPEG is 5MB. The actual size depends on the compile options. (A 30% variance is possible.)
RAM Memory Requirements (Example for Linux OS)
SRAM is configurable
Recommended starting point 16MB
Smart Media Manager Memory Options
SQLite Interface Memory Consumption
Video Thumbnail Creation Swapping
Picture Thumbnail Creation Swapping Buffer
Enable/disable Formats and Codecs*
*Certain codecs require additional license agreements with IP owners (e.g. ace3, divx)
Multi Language and Embedded* Subtitles Support (Not specified by DLNA)
