DLNA Creates VidiPath Extensions

The Digital Living Network Alliance created new extensions of its VidiPath specifications that “allow for cloud delivery of commercial video content to retail consumer electronics devices,” DLNA said in an ex parte filing posted in FCC docket 15-64 Tuesday. Content using the extensions is protected using digital rights management and delivered through “standards-based MPEG-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP,” it said. Leading desktop browsers already support the extension specifications or are planned to, DLNA said. The guidelines will let multichannel video programming distributors and over-the-top content providers offer commercial content to retail devices either using traditional content delivery mechanisms or using cloud/IP content delivery mechanisms, DLNA said. “VidiPath Cloud Extension Guidelines also support accessibility services including closed captions, emergency alert messages, and secondary audio programming.”