Oregan Media Browser

"Reports of the death of the living room TV have been greatly exaggerated. Actually, your TV is about to become a central portal for innumerable digital media services.  Oregan's embedded software provides low cost delivery of Internet service and high definition digital media over IP networks to notoriously resource-constrained home entertainment platforms."
AO Hollywood

Oregan Media Browser 4.0 overview

Oregan Media Browser 4.0 provides a web standards-based, fast-track media player solution for manufacturers of IP-connected TVs and Set Top Boxes wishing to deploy user-generated and rights-managed Internet video services across a variety of form factors. The software runs an advanced user interface and video applications in a limited memory footprint, allowing for optimal implementation on low cost iDTV and STB media decoder chipsets.

The Onyx User Interface is the default unified UI of Oregan Media Browser 4.0, based on XHTML and JavaScript and easily customisable by an ODM / OEM using an SDK provided by Oregan.


More than a browser

Oregan Media Browser delivers more than a User Interface technology. We have integrated support for popular web standards and formats with synergistic technologies for streaming and playback of high definition video and audio over IP. Oregan Media Browser is a complete suite of broadband entertainment software building blocks for media client devices, incorporating three software modules into one seamless media access application for resource-constrained non-PC appliances.


Designed for TV

Oregan Media Browser is a product for top Consumer Electronics brands, featuring CE-HTML and vector graphics rendering functionalities, whilst maintaining low footprint and memory requirements.

Oregan's browser provides an elegant and user-friendly solution to display Internet content on any TV screen, taking full advantage of high definition television formats.


TV browser and open widgets

Oregan TV Browser features an Open Widget library. This feature enables new content and applications to be readily presented to consumers via a Widget pop-up over the user interface or live video.

  • As an example the Onyx UI features Widgets showing live data from Google weather, BBC News, BBC Sport, Yahoo, YouTube and Netflix.
  • Customisable design: shape, screen position, eventing & invoke mechanism, graphics, transparency.
  • Created as a browser module, enabling non-obtrusive delivery of web applications and content over IP, in conjunction with broadcast and IP video streams.
  • Implemented as per W3C Widgets 1.0 specification, represents a client-side web application for displaying and updating data.
  • Widgets can be factory installed or downloaded over IP as a user-initiated enhancement.
  • Flexible and open for any data feed sources and graphics chosen by an OEM.

CEA-2014 (CE-HTML) compliance

Oregan Media Browser supports the CEA-2014 specifification, which enables online web services that have been developed to this standard to be delivered seamlessly to devices running Oregan Media Browser.


DLNA 1.5 compliance

Oregan's DLNA module enables sharing of commercial and personal digital content over home networks, supporting High Definition H.264, WMV-9 and mobile 3GP video codecs, as well as advanced mobile use cases.

The module is a fast-track solution for manufacturers of IP-connected TVs who wish to integrate home network interoperability standards prescribed by the DLNA organisation.

Oregan Media Browser has achieved the status of DLNA 1.5 Testbed Reference Device, which is to be utilised by DLNA members and Independent Certification Vendors (ICVs) during future plugfests and as part of the consortium's generic certification process.


Customisation and system integration environment

Designing Content for Onyx

Oregan™ User Interface and Applications Software Development Kit makes it possible for web and graphics design professionals to rapidly create, test, and implement unique cross-platform user interface assets and applications in conjunction with web design tools for creation of graphics, Flash animations and HTML. In addition, this SDK provides access to JavaScript extension APIs enabling integration with streaming video servers, middleware and subscriber management solutions.

Customising Hardware Functions

  • Adaptation of low level hardware drivers
  • System Integration via JavaScript APIs with customer-specified DVB, PVR, DRM and head-end technology solutions
  • Remote upgrade facility