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Alexa and Google Assistant are now available to the user via devices like Echo and Google Home so that the user can interact with their streaming TV service hands-free. Users can search for content, actors, genres, or channels. Quickly play movies and shows or jump between channels as well as media player controls. To learn more, read up here:

Android TV catalog integration allows users to discover Shows and movies. Episodes and Channels across all of the installed apps on the user's device (as long as the developer has updated their app to support the feature). The user can use the search input on the OS search screen or the voice button on the box's remote. When the user does an Android-level search, the Android TV OS sends the request to the apps installed on the device so that Android can identify which apps have a result that matches the user input. If the OS finds an exact match for the search, then it will display it at the top of the Android OS search screen (outside of the Mobi app) as a universal result. The user can then select the app from which they'd like to consume the title. If the OS does not find an exact match for the user command but does find rough matches for the search (matches that have correct keywords in the title but that Android is not able to verify as an exact match), they will be displayed underneath the unified results at the top of the screen in a dedicated row for your app. Caveat: Android uses the content's duration as a key factor in determining whether the item being searched for by the user is an exact match. In the development of the feature, it was discovered that Android expects content duration without commercials; given that much of the average operator's content has commercials, Mobi's content duration metadata includes commercials. Consequently, Android considers these to be rough matches and so they appear in the operator's dedicated row beneath the top universal results row. Mobi has begun ingesting the duration sans commercials metadata from Gracenote to prevent this caveat from happening.

Display Language

This new feature flag, when enabled, will display language code at the end of a Channel name, Series name, or Movie title if the primary audio language is not English.

Platform

In this release, we added support for ingesting additional metadata fields as required by Alexa integration, improved handling for series-related VOD clip content, introduced new resiliency-related features for VOD ingestion (asynchronous processing, ingestion monitoring), supported VID-specific EAS alerts, and continued with tech upgrades (including extended metadata improvement).

  • Metadata enhancements to support Alexa and Google Assistant
  • VOD Ingestion Enhancements
    • Conversion to Spring Boot (Tech Upgrade)
    • Asynchronous processing of VOD ingestion (Resiliency)
    • Components affected: VOD Ingestor, Ingestion Event Service, FTP Log Parser
    • Improved Monitoring — component logging changes and availability
    • Aspera logs
    • Ftplogparser
    • Ingestion event service
    • VOD Ingestion Service
    • DAM Servic
  • Automated mapping of VOD clips to associated Shared Series allowing series-related VOD clips (e.g. bonus clips) to appear as part of the Shared Series entity and preventing duplicate series from appearing in the IJI. Requires XSLT config change to rollout feature to each VOD provider.
  • Blackout Service updated with content provider API for FOX to provide visibility into currently scheduled blackouts.
  • Increase asset extended metadata column length to support additional VIDs.

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