Multiprotocol control of networked home entertainment devices
- Authors: Siebörger, David Robert
- Date: 2004
- Subjects: Home entertainment systems , Home video systems
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:4642 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006585 , Home entertainment systems , Home video systems
- Description: Networks will soon connect a wide range of computing devices within the home. Amongst those devices will be home entertainment devices. Remote control over the network will be a key application for networked entertainment devices, and requires a protocol for communication understood by both controller and controlled device. Devices capable of communication using multiple control protocols will be compatible with a wider range of controllers than those which implement only one control protocol. This work examines home networks and a number of control protocols. The implementations of the UPnP and AV/C protocols for an AV receiver are described. The issues involved in the concurrent use of multiple control protocols to control a device are considered, possible methods of concurrent control discussed, and a solution which simulates virtual copies of the device is implemented and tested.
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The remote configuration of devices within home entertainment networks
- Authors: Dembovsky, Colin
- Date: 2002
- Subjects: Home entertainment systems , Home video systems
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:4685 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007795 , Home entertainment systems , Home video systems
- Description: This thesis examines home entertainment network remote configuration solutions. It does so by inspecting four home entertainment networking solution specifications - HAVi, Jini, AV/C and UPnP. Two of these (AV/C and UPnP) are implemented partially for a system allowing a TV to configure an AudioNideo Receiver (AV/R) remotely on the network (a process known as remote configuration). The two implementations are then more closely investigated and several implementation differences in the approach between the remote configuration method of device configuration and other methods of device configuration are discerned. These different approaches are then categorised into one of two theoretical models of communication for configuring devices on home entertainment networks - the Rendering model and the Programmed model. By classifying a particular method of device configuration into one of the two models, manufacturers can quickly determine the inherent strengths and weaknesses of that method , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in
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