I have owned and used a Formuler Z7+ for the past month. Formuler Z7+ comes with a custom built Android OS. It also comes with the MyTVOnline app pre-installed. The MyTVOnline (MTVO) application is the selling point for the Z7+. As they say, it is the meat of the product. MTVO is the gateway to enabling IPTV on the android box. So, why all this information?
Well, I am a software engineer by trade and I tend to get curious about how the software that I use works behind the scenes. So naturally, I started to think about how MTVO currently works on the server side. The client side is simply an android application. Is someone here familiar with how the backend of MTVO works? Is there another separate software that the MTVO developers provide to IPTV providers that allows them to stream their content? or is there a plug and play protocol that allows any IPTV provider to broadcast their content?
Anyone familiar with the topic please feel free to chime in. Also, let me know if there is a more appropriate sub for this question.
Thanks,
@denvercoder The Android, Linux or any operating system (client) basically has credentials which will authenticate to a server that basically does not care of what you run on your end as long as it authenticates then the content/media/data will be transmitted accordingly.
You OTT server is expesive and requires many CDN inputs which will in a way translate/transcode output to all clients. Upload requires a big pipe which is where most of the congestion happens when overselling occurs.