Live TV will be streaming to your iPhone with the new version of NexPlayer from NexTreaming. Fully compliant with international standards such as 3GPP and 3GPP2, and also supports proprietary specifications for some operators such as Orange, Vodafone, SKT, KTF and LGT.

NewPlayer has been optimized for the hardware capabilities of the iPhone. NexTreaming states that "NexPlayer will be the best choice for the customers who want to enable mobile phones with an excellent player for worldwide network operators." The application comes as part of the Companies range of products including NexTV, NexPlayer Lite, NexCam and NexMusic.

In addition, the streaming function is available to support multi-cast DVB-H of the European mobile TV standards, CMMB of the Chinese mobile TV standards and MBMS of the 3GPP standards and 3GPP based uni-cast streaming. The media player has abundant features with NexTreaming stating that the product has "already proved (itself) in the market through commercial references and being evolved." NexPlayer is avialable for more than 120 handsets worldwide. The features and specifications include:

Standard

• 3GPP local/progressive download/streaming (3GPP Rel.4, Rel.5, Rel.6)
• 3GPP2 local/progressive download/streaming
• KWISF (Korean Standard) local/streaming
• ETSI DVB-H
• OMA BCAST / CBMS
• CMMB(China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting)
• MBMS(Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service)

Operator Proprietary Specification

• SKT : Timed Text / MIDI / Local / Streaming (June Service)
• KTF : Local / Streaming (Fimm Service)
• LGT : Streaming (VOD Service)
• China Unicom : Local / Streaming (AMC, 3GPP, 3GPP2)
• Orange : Streaming / Progressive download (FastTrack™)
• NTT DoCoMo : i-mode local/progressive download/streaming
• Vodafone : Vodafone Live, Radio DJ(RTSP Extension)
• T-mobile : Real streaming (RDT)
• KDDI : local

Protocols

• RTSP (RFC2326)
• SDP (RFC2327)
• RTP/RTCP (RFC3550, 3551)

Depacketizer

• H.263 (RFC2190,2429)
• MPEG-4 (RFC3016)
• H.264 (RFC3984)
• AMR-NB/AMR-WB (RFC3267)
• Extended AMR-WB(RFC4352)
• EVRC (RFC3558)
• AAC-LC/AAC-LTP (RFC3016)
• HE AAC (RFC3016,3640)
• HE AAC V2 (RFC3016)
• 13kQCELP (RFC2658)

Typical Functions

• Play/Stop. Pause/Resume
• Fast Forward, Rewind
• Random Access
• Repeat (Full, Partial)

Specific Functions

• Multiple instances (PIP)
• Time-Shift
• Streaming recording (Including PDCF)
• Snapshot (save as jpeg file)
• Thumbnail view
• File information extraction
• 3GPP/3GPP2 timed text
• i-mode / KDDI DRM
• DRM decryption integration (OMA DRM, SKT/KTF/LGT DRM)
• Supporting interfaces with ESG(EPG) and CAS

Experienced Chip

• Qualcomm
• NXP
• Broadcom
• Texas Instruments
• Spreadtrum
• Marvell
• Samsung

Experienced OS

• REX
• Nucleous
• Symbian
• Linux
• uITron
• ThreadX
• WinCE / Windows Mobile
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista

[via NexTreaming]