Multicast method for living broadcast network TV

Abstract

The invention discloses a multi-cast method of a direct broadcast network television, and relates to the network television multi-cast technology. The invention is proposed to solve the problem that the multi-cast control effect is not good in the network television at present. The invention adopts the technical proposal that firstly, an electronic program list server receives a channel broadcasting request sent by a user through a set-top box and then returns the ID information of the channel to the set-top box; secondly, whether a local channel attribute list contains the attribute of a request channel or not is searched through the set-top box, if the local channel attribute list contains the attribute of the request channel, whether the request channel is out of date or not is confirmed, when the request channel is in date, an editing television signal request is directly sent to television multicast equipment according to the attribute of the request channel; thirdly, the television multicast equipment broadcasts a television signal to the set-top box. The electronic program list server of the invention is arranged in the IPTV network, thereby the multicast control to all users is realized. The realization of the invention is simple, and the cost is low.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an Internet TV (IPTV) multicast technology, in particular to a multicast method for live Internet TV. Background technique [0002] Compared with traditional TV services, IPTV's biggest feature is that it can provide personalized and real-time interactive on-demand services, and can also carry out other value-added services similar to traditional telecommunication services and Internet services. IPTV business uses IP network to integrate the content from various content providers such as TV media, film and television production companies, news media organizations, distance education institutions, etc., and transmit them to users' personal computers, set-top boxes and TVs through the integration of IPTV broadband business application platform Terminals such as mobile phones and multimedia mobile phones enable users to enjoy the rich and colorful broadband multimedia service content brought by IPTV. The IPTV service has a wide u...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] At present, most of the multicast replication devices in the IPTV access network do not have the ability to control multicast, that is, they cannot perform operations such as authentication and auditing on users who join the multicast

Although the above problems can be solved by upgrading the equipment, the cost is high and it will also cause interruption to the current business

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