Hi Clinton, Glad to hear people are interesting in building TV apps! Here is the answer for your questions:
1. TV WebAPI is not provided to 3rd party application due to the current industry consensus about restricting the broadcasting content to be "borrowed" by 3rd party app. Therefore, you can only create such kind of digital signage player as a certified app, which needs to be negotiated with TV manufacturer. 2. TV overlay can be resized according to the size of <video> which associated to the TV stream. Hope this help. :) Best Regards, Shih-Chiang Chien Mozilla Taiwan On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Clinton Gallagher <[email protected] > wrote: > I recall reading FxOS could access the hardware and support > Picture-in-Picture (PIP) on TV devices. > The following diagram is my kind of PIP: The Holy Grail for connected TV > development > > <pre> > ------------------------------ > | | | > | | | > | TV | .html | > | | | > ------------------------------ > | .html | > ------------------------------ > </pre> > > * Can I (we) code this type of "digital signage" application on the > Panasonic TV sets now? > * If not implemented now are the core FxOS developers working to get this > type of synergy implemented? > > My understanding of FxOS TV broadcast streaming [1] suggests --no not now-- > I (we) cannot have the holy grail --yet-- because rescaling the size of the > broadcasted TV stream is already being done in legacy hardware and the > manufacturers do not have an incentive to adopt a new way of doing so. > > Is this a correct assessment and if so when if ever will we get the holy > grail which currently can be done spending ~$1k for an accessory in a box > called a digital signage media player. > > Clinton Gallagher > > [1] TV broadcast streams on Firefox OS products > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/TVs_connected_de > vices/TV_broadcast_streams_Firefox_OS > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >
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