Zignal Client Technical Specifications

Zignal is built using open standards wherever applicable.

Zignal Client User Interface

The Zignal client can be rendered using any browser. Rendering technologies include:

• SVG
• Flash
• Silverlight
• HTML 4.01
• XHTML 1.0
• CSS 2.0
• XML
• DOM 2
• JavaScript 1.5
• Dynamic HTML
• AJAX engine with XMLHTTP

Media Formats

Video

• MPEG-2
• MPEG-4
• H.264
• Windows Media 9

Audio

• MPEG-2 audio
• MPEG-2 layer 3 (MP3)

Graphics

• JPEG with progressive download
• PNG with 8-bit alpha mask
• GIF89a (animated)

Open Source Solutions

• Java 5.0
• DWR 2.0
• log4j
• XFire 1.2
• Spring 1.4
• Wicket 1.4

Language support

English and Western European Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) scripts standard
Translations for:

• German
• French
• Italian
• Spanish
• Danish
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Icelandic

Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16), Cyrillic, Japanese (EUC, JIS, and Shift-JIS), Simplified Chinese (GB and HZ), Traditional Chinese (Big5), and Korean (UKSC) supported, depending on browser font pack
Arabic and Hebrew (including right-to-left) input

Navigation and Input Methods

• Fixed cursor navigation (up, down, left, right)
• Standard trick-play (rewind, fast forward, pause)
• On-screen keyboard
• Physical keyboard
• Arabic and Hebrew right-to-left input
• Mouse navigation

Television and display systems

• PAL
• NTSC
• 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 standard aspect ratios
• HDTV 720p and 1080i
• Multiple display profiling for devices

Networking

• HTTP over TCP
• IPv4 and IPv6
• DHCP or static addressing
• PPP, PPPoE, and PPPoA-compatible
• Mixed Network Support

Media Streaming

Multicast video with IGMP for television channels
RTSP for VOD and trick-play

• Edgeware
• BitBand
• Kasenna MediaBase
• nCube
• Concurrent
• EONA
• InfoValue
• Tandberg
• SeaChange
• Oracle

Metadata Display in User Interface

• Movie title, rating, year, summary, and personnel
• Television show title and series, rating, year, and summary

Conditional Access Systems

• Widevine
• Verimatrix
• Other systems on demand

Client System Requirements

Minimum 250 MHz CPU recommended for performanc, e10-20 MB storage for operating system and web browser, 32 MB working memory minimum, 64 MB recommended.

For further information on Zignal please contact us at sales@industria.com.