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| Feature Group | Feature Category | Sub-Feature | Accelerator Requirement | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playback Requirements | ABR | HLS | YES | |
| MPEG-DASH | YES | |||
| Audio Codecs | MPEG 1/2/3/4 | YES | ||
| AAC | YES | Cobalt and other premium app requirement | ||
| OPUS | YES | Cobalt requirement | ||
| WAV | OPTIONAL | |||
| PCM & LPCM | YES | |||
| VORBIS_OGG | OPTIONAL | |||
| EAC3 | YES | Premium apps requirement | ||
| AC3 | YES | |||
| DTS | OPTIONAL | |||
| Audio Output Formats | Stereo | YES | ||
| Dolby Digital | YES | Premium apps requirement | ||
| Dolby ATMOS | YES | Premium apps requirement | ||
| Dolby Digital Plus | YES | Premium apps requirement | ||
| Dolby MS12 | YES | Premium apps requirement | ||
| Video Codecs | H.263 | YES | ||
| H.264 | YES | |||
| H.265 | YES | |||
| HEVC | YES | |||
| MPEG1/2 | YES | |||
| VP8 | YES | |||
| VP9 | YES | Cobalt & other premium app requirement | ||
| AV1 | YES | Cobalt requirement. AV1 is the successor to VP9 | ||
| AVS | OPTIONAL | |||
| Decoders | Hardware Decoders | YES | Hardware decoders for decoding Audio and Video streams | |
| Decoding Dual Video Streams | OPTIONAL | Cobalt requirement | ||
| Stream Container Formats | .mp4 | YES | Cobalt requirement | |
| .webm | YES | Cobalt requirement | ||
| MPEG2-TS | OPTIONAL | |||
| Player Instance | HTML-Video tag | YES | Playback of IP Video from HTML apps using Video tag. | |
| UVE player (Universal Video Engine ) | YES | Player for playback of IP Video using AAMP Video Engine on RDKV Devices | ||
| Output Resolutions and Frame Rates | Video Output Resolutions & Display Features | 480i | OPTIONAL | |
| 480p | OPTIONAL | |||
| 720p | YES | |||
| 1080i | YES | |||
| 1080p | YES | |||
| 4K | YES | |||
| HDR10 | YES | |||
| Dolby Vision Advanced HDR for VOD | YES | |||
| Frame Rates | High Frame Rates(HFR): 50, 59.94, 60 | YES | premium app requirement | |
| Standard Frame Rates (SFR): 23.976, 24 , 25, 29.97, 30 | YES | premium app requirement | ||
| Content Protection | DRM | Clear Key | OPTIONAL | |
| PlayReady | YES | |||
| Widewine | YES | |||
| OpenCDM Interface (Content Decryption Module) | YES | |||
| Content Encryption CENC 1/2/3 for HEVC/H.265 | YES | premium app requirements | ||
| Content Encryption CENC 1 for AVC/H.264 | YES | premium app requirements | ||
| CAS | Unified CAS OpenCDMi plugin to support different CAS vendors | YES (Hybrid VA) | depends on security partner but rdkcentral doesn't include any CAS support | |
| HDMI Output Protection | HDCP 1.4 and HDCP 2.2 | YES | premium app & Cobalt requirement. | |
| TEE | Trusted Execution Environment | YES | Cobalt & other premium app requirement. | |
| Storage | Secure key storage | YES | Requirement for Premium apps | |
| Networking | Wi-Fi | Persistent Wi-Fi Enable/Disable | YES | |
| Dual band Wi-Fi | YES | |||
| Connection to WPA2+AES, WPA+AES, WPA+TKIP/AES, WPA2+TKIP/AES,WEP | YES | WEP_64, WEP_128, WPA_PSK_TKIP, WPA_PSK_AES, WPA2_PSK_TKIP, WPA2_PSK_AES, WPA_ENTERPRISE_TKIP, WPA_ENTERPRISE_AES, WPA2_ENTERPRISE_TKIP, WPA2_ENTERPRISE_AES, WPA_WPA2_PSK, WPA_WPA2_ENTERPRISE, WPA2_PSK_AES_PREAUTH, WPA2_PSK_TKIP_PREAUTH, WPA2_PSK_AES_TKIP_PREAUTH ? | ||
| Configurable Wi-Fi Settings | YES | |||
| LAN IP | DHCP | YES | ||
| Bluetooth (Version 5) | Audio Out | YES | ||
| Profile details | YES | |||
| Audio Input | YES | Needed for Bluetooth remote voice input. | ||
| Profiles needed for Voice input: Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control | YES | Needed for Bluetooth remote voice input. | ||
| BLE & GATT Protocol | YES | |||
| UI Applications and Rendering | App Support | Firebolt SDK | YES | |
| Native Apps | YES | |||
| HTML Apps | YES | |||
| Image format - Jpeg & PNG & SVG & WebP | YES | Cobalt requires WebP | ||
| 1080p Graphics | YES | |||
| OpenGL ES2.0 | YES | Cobalt & PrimeVideo requirement | ||
| WebRTC | OPTIONAL | |||
| Video on Texture | OPTIONAL | |||
| Lightning Applications | YES | |||
| DAC (Downloadable App Container) | YES | Verified with cobalt | ||
| Expected memory usage by Apps (RAM) | YES | Expected memory usage for premiums apps can be referred from the requirement document of respective premium apps. Memory usage for other applications will be defined later. | ||
UI/UX | Common APIs to support Channel MAP. EPG | OPTIONAL | RDK does not have any requirements on this regard. This is transport specific. | |
| Browser | WPE 2.38 | YES | ||
| Rendering | ESSOS 1.0.1.21 & wayland (westeros or required compositor) | YES | ||
| Premium Apps | YouTube (Cobalt) - Version 24 | YES | ||
| Amazon Prime - Version AVPK5 | YES | |||
| Other Apps | Alexa Voice | OPTIONAL | ||
| ResidentApp | YES | Operator Specific | ||
| Device Security | Security | Intrusion detection | NO | |
| Linux Containers / DAC (Downloadable App Container) | YES | |||
| HTTPS(SSL & TLS) | YES | |||
| HTTPS PDRI (Primary Disaster Recovery Image) | YES | Operator Specific | ||
| HTTPS SDRI (Secondary Disaster Recovery Image) | YES | Operator Specific | ||
| Secure Boot | YES | Operator Specific | ||
| Audio & Video Outputs | HDMI | HDMI Out | YES | |
| HDCP Compliance (1.4 and 2.2) | YES | Premium Apps requirement | ||
| HDMI-CEC | YES | Cobalt requirement | ||
| SPDIF | SPDIF for Audio Output | OPTIONAL | ||
| Device Inputs and Front Panel | Remote | IR Remote | YES | Operator Specific |
| Bluetooth Remote | YES | |||
| Voice Remote | YES | |||
| USB | USB Port Detection & Control Ready | OPTIONAL | ||
| Front Panel | Front Panel Display | OPTIONAL | ||
| Front Panel Indicators | OPTIONAL | |||
| Voice Guidance | wakeup on keyword | OPTIONAL | ||
| Alexa | YES | |||
| Audio chat | OPTIONAL | |||
| Firmware Upgrades | Code Download Methods | XCONF | YES | |
| HTTP/HTTPS | YES | |||
| Additional firmware change | Remote STB image upgrade (OTA) | YES | ||
| Bluetooth remote firmware | YES | Remote vendor specific | ||
| Device Managements | Logging | Log rollover | YES | Log rotation happens based on the LOG File size. |
| log archiving & HTTP Log upload | OPTIONAL | No upload server | ||
| Dynamic logging support | YES | |||
| Device Management | WebPa | YES | ||
| Xconf | YES | |||
| RFC | YES | |||
| Telemetry | YES | |||
| tr181 and tr69 | YES | |||
| SSH | OPTIONAL | Operator Specific for Production box. Expecting SSH for development devices. | ||
| Diagnostics | HTML Diag | OPTIONAL | ||
| Front Panel LED | OPTIONAL | |||
| Memory Diag | YES | Using Linux mem utils like "free" etc., | ||
| Power Modes and Resets | Initialization & Resets | Remote Reboot | YES | |
| Thermal Protection and Reset | OPTIONAL | |||
| Warehouse /Factory Reset | YES | |||
| Power | Light Sleep | YES | LIGHT_SLEEP can be used to set a stand-by state from which the box can wakeup quickly | |
| Deep Sleep | YES | DEEP_SLEEP is used to set the device to lowest power state (Suspend to RAM). It takes longer to resume to from a deep sleep state | ||
| Wakeup Modes | Bluetooth Remote | YES | ||
| WakeOn LAN | YES | |||
| Front Panel Key | OPTIONAL | |||
| IR Remote | YES | |||
| Misc | Misc | Advertising | OPTIONAL | Operator Specific. |
| Media REC/Download storage - Local(eMMC, HDD, NAS etc.)/Cloud | OPTIONAL | |||
| Disaster Recovery | YES | |||
| TSB for live IP playback (FOG support) | OPTIONAL | |||
| DIAL protocol version 2.2.1 | YES | Cobalt requirement | ||
| spherical videos for 360 video transform | OPTIONAL | Cobalt requirement. If platform supports then this feature should be supported. | ||
| Video Resizing | YES | Cobalt requirement | ||
| cobalt 24 and above for YouTube certification | YES | Cobalt requirement | ||
| USB Audio support in kernel | YES | Alexa voice requirement | ||
| Boot up time performance (40-60 Seconds bootup time at max) | YES | |||
| Accessibility / Regulatory | Accessibility / Regulatory | IP EAS (Emergency Alert System) | OPTIONAL | Operator Specific |
| Closed caption/Teletext (WebVTT/TTML) | OPTIONAL | Operator Specific | ||
| Audio Tracks | SAP (Secondary Audio Programming) | OPTIONAL | Sound with video description for the vision impaired. SOC dependent. | |
| DVS (Descriptive Video Information) | OPTIONAL | Additional narration which enables visually impaired persons to hear enriched verbal descriptions of the action being seen on the program | ||
| Standards | The new proposed RDK DVB stack should support DVB C, DVB S/S2 DVB T /T2 | YES (Hybrid VA) | DTVKit supports the DVB standards |
Useful Links for reference:
1) Wifi-hal and Device Settings HAL API's Doxygen doc are available at https://wiki.rdkcentral.com/doxygen/rdkv-opensourced/index.html
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