TC4. Audiovisual Services and Communications  Technical Committee
Promote the development of value-added video service models, and drive the development of Taiwan’s digital video hardware and software industry ecosystems.
Vision and Structure
Purpose
  • Integrate video service technologies.
  • Construct an integrated multimedia content services platform.
  • Create distinctive video channelsand enrich video contents..
Responsibilities
  • Invite relevant domestic companies to form working groups to discuss standards content, test cases, interoperability tests, and field trials. Consolidate views and opinions, and reach consensus regarding standards.
  • Generate Open API verification guidelines and standards for implementation and verification of video management platforms.
  • Establish an interoperation platform to facilitate cooperation between video platform developers and content providers by means of the sharing of the OpenAPI standards.
Organization Chart

Video Industry Standards
Establish standards for video content management platforms, and execute transcoding and verification tests.

Key Results and Benefits to Industry
Key results: Promote guidelines for implementation of a standardized Taiwan video platform.
  • 2015.06 – Deliver an audiovisual content metadata specification document.
  • 2016.12 – Deliver a common Open API standards and data format specification document for the domestic audiovisual industry.
Results and Benefits

Short-term benefits to the domestic industry:

  • Creation of guidelines for key technology development and integration across the industry.
  • Development of a standardized, universal platform for delivering Chinese video content services.

Mid- to long-term benefits to the domestic industry:

  • With new standards guidelines, encourage collaboration with major companies or SMBs—i.e., channel and platform providers, 4G operators, terminal equipment vendors, and system integrators—to develop an integrated Chinese video content management and delivery platform and related hardware, software and business applications.
2016 Activities Timeline

2016 Activities Timeline