Create a new UI with engine ?

[dfox]

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS2466978910.html

What's in the feature pack?

According to Ghangurde, the new Windows CE 5.0 NMD feature pack -- formerly codenamed "Tomatin" -- provides a DVR engine, networking capabilities, device drivers, and video codecs typically required to develop consumer NMDs and IP-STBs.
While Microsoft did not specify precisely which functions result from the addition of the NMD feature pack, the company attributed the following NMD-oriented features to the composite, Windows CE 5.0 + NMD Feature Pack OS.

    * Protocols and wireless standards support:
          o TCP, IPv4, IPv6, NDIS, SSL, SNMP, XML
          o 802.11x, BlueTooth, IrDA, USB 2.0, SDIO
          o Windows Connect Now USB configuration

    * Extensive multimedia support:
          o Windows Media 9 / VC-1
                + Software VC-1 compliant codec (SD & HD); license to be acquired through MPEG LA, LLC
                + Faststart, Multicast, and Unicast Streaming
                + HTTP 1.1, MMS, or local file streaming
          o Additional codecs
                + Included: WAV, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 MS ISO
                + Through third parties: MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, Real, On2...
          o Direct Show -- flexible media playback engine for software- or hardware-assisted decoding
                + Sample media player application
                + OCX control
          o Graphics through GDI, DirectX 8, or Direct 3D Mobile

    * Integrated NMD middleware and sample UI:
          o UPnP, UPnP A/V, UPnP DCP
          o Windows Media Connect v2.0 compatible Media Query Engine
          o Sample NMD user interface (UI) with play list management and playback (photo, video, music)
          o Full UI source code provided

    * Content protection and DRM:
          o Windows Media Digital Rights Management 10
                + Support for direct license acquisition (IPTV, Internet download,...)
                + Windows Media DRM 10 for Network Devices (for faster PlaysForSure certification)
          o Third party DVB Conditional Access Systems (CAS) available

Additionally, the composite Windows CE 5.0 + NMD Feature Pack OS provides a customizable Internet Explorer 6.0 Web browser that features Jscript, VB script, and HTML 4.0 support, along with what Microsoft describes as a "TV-lens for 10 foot experience: directional tabbing, disabled scrolling." Plus, of course, all other Windows CE 5.0 features.

[mce2222]

interesting find... although it is a bit old.
it looks like this has a lot in common with the IPTV edition

if anybody wants to check it out .. here is the download link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bf17d6b0-4716-494b-9018-7deee9b91832&displaylang=en

[dfox]

StreamOnTV is an alternative user interface known here for the set-top boxes, what their functions to several useful functions.
StreamOnTV enables the playback of media files from their own network-sharing and radio / TV streams from the Internet. In addition, the user the opportunity to surf the Internet, SOT via FTP to update and using VNC from a client computer to access the box.

http://thomson.dreamgates.de/dokuwiki/sot:start - German Download http://www.smart-toolworks.de/content/downloads.htm

http://users.alliedmods.net/~pm/category/ip1101/
Custom software and UI i.e media player and other apps running on Thosmon IP1101 Wince set-top-box.
Using Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ 4: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1DACDB3D-50D1-41B2-A107-FA75AE960856&displaylang=en

Different chipset however runs in the same manner as the philips box with NK.BIN

http://thomson.dreamgates.de/dokuwiki/stb:thomson:ip1101:start - German
Wiki some more custom apps & info for the above box.

[mce2222]

Different chipset however runs in the same manner as the philips box with NK.BIN

thats an incorrect assumption. all the SMP863x devices with MS IPTVe do not use DirectX but directly
access the Audio/Video DSP directly from a custom native DLL.
there is an optional mode where WinCE can also access the framebuffer, but that is slow and not
at all useable for video display.

so the point is... you cannot simply use a standard WinCE software with graphics output.
if you want to create something from scratch, you have to build it on top of the tv2engine.dll or maybe the iptvplatform.dll