A platform for difusion interactive multimedia content: an approach focused on IPTV system and broadcasting digital television system

This work presents the JiTV (Java Interactive Television) as a proposal of a platform that can be used for building digital multimedia content, specially in terms of the prototyping Interactive Digital Television Programs (iDTvP). Among the main features of the JiTV, we can put light on content description based on XML schema and implementation of iDTvP components using Java. In this context, the JiTV platform supports the full lifecycle (production, distribution, formatting, presentation and interaction) of the iDTvP, being full compliant to ISDTV (International System for Digital Television) middleware requirements and applied to IPTV applications and services. The JiTV platform is being used in some projects, such as in the both cooperation with academic projects over IPTV (JiTV is the infrastructure for experiments with iDTvP at Federal University of Santa Catarina and University of Sao Paulo - USP/LARC) and in brodcaster case over Brazilian Digital Televison System (JiTV is the infrastructure for building the interactivity plataform of the TVPoços - network operator associated to RedeMinas de Televisão).