Streamer Extension Guide

The Media Service provided to applications through the TOI is highly extensible and configurable. Deep under the hood, all media stream processing in the KreaTV TV Platform is performed by a component called the Streamer. It is by extending the Streamer that the Media Service can be blessed with new and innovative capabilities, ready for the applications to use.

This guide describes how to extend the Streamer with the purpose of providing new functionality to the applications when they are using the Media Service. From an application's point of view, extending the Streamer is synonymous with extending the Media Service, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. In this guide however, we will only use the term "extending the Streamer".