Stalker Middleware App
- StalkerTV for Set-Top Boxes is the video player for content from your IPTV/OTT/VoD providers who use Stalker Middleware or Ministra TV platform from Infomir. The app works on: - Android TV set-top.
- We managed to do the significant alternations in the interface that brought the app to a new level. Download the new version of Stalker Middleware ( Ministra TV ) and get the refined YouTube service, which is much easier to use!
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol(IP) networks. Actually everything is simple on the subscriber side, you just need to open your Set Top Box and watch your Television. If it does not work properly, you can complain to the QoS and ask for support. On the other hand, things are not so simple for the backend guys who maintain the IPTV service.
In order to have an IPTV service, IPTV engineers may need to fetch stream from a remote URL and re-stream to subscribers. And that’s the point where Ant Media Server can take place, with the recent developments, Ant Media Server can restream any remote RTSP, RTMP, HLS streams. In other words, you can fetch any IPTV , IP Camera stream from an URL and restream to your subscribers.
What is IPTV Ministra TV (Stalker Portal) Platform ?
On the test, I will install the Ministra TV Platform (formerly called Stalker Middleware) in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. First we will make a request for download by visiting the official website www.
Ministra TV (Stalker Portal) platform is a free IPTV middleware platform for MAG STB (Set Top Box) devices. You can download and install Ministra TV Platform for free. In order to download the Ministra TV (Stalker Portal) Platform, you need to fill the form on infomir’s web site. After you download the IPTV platform, here is the instructions for installation. By the way, Ant Media Server is compatible with Ministra TV 5.4.1 version which should be installed on Ubuntu 16.04.
Import Live/VoD streams to Ministra TV Platform
Stalker Middleware App Tutorial
Ministra TV (Stalker Portal) platform is a middleware that just forward requests to an origin server so that a media server should take place to provide origin streams. Even if you can import each Live/VoD streams to IPTV Platform, there is a simple way in doing it. Let us tell how to do that step by step.
- Get the MySQL database host address, username and password, in order to access the database of Ministra TV Platform(Stalker Portal). You specify these values while installing the Ministra TV Platform.
- Go to the
/usr/local/antmediadirectory. - Go to the app directory.For instance, if you plan to import Live/VoD streams in “LiveApp” application, go to webapps/LiveApp directory.
- Edit the properties file in WEB-INF directory with your text editor. The important properties we need to set are
settings.stalkerDBServer, settings.stalkerDBUsername, settings.stalkerDBPassword. - Restart the Ant Media Server
- Go to the web panel of Ant Media Server with your internet browser. After that, open the settings of “LiveApp” which you already set the properties in previous step. You should see buttons for “Import Live Streams” and “Import VoD streams” to the Ministra TV Platform
- Just click “Import Live Streams” or “Import VoD Streams” to import streams on Ant Media Server to Ministra IPTV (Stalker Portal) platform. That’s all. Keep in mind that it clears the list in Ministra TV and import streams. If you have some other streams in Ministra TV, please backup them first.
- Go to the web interface of Ministra TV Platform in order to check that Live/VoD streams are added. If everything is OK, your subscribers can watch the streams on Ant Media Server with their MAG Set Top Boxes.
Conclusion
Stalker Middleware App Web
As a result, Ant Media Server can take place fetching and streaming in an IPTV service. We hope this blog post will be useful for someones working on technical side of IPTV Service.
Stalker Middleware App Web
Please keep in touch if you have anything to ask. In addition, you may send e-mail to contact at antmedia dot io as well.