Continue Watching
Overview
The Continue Watching Service will provide a method for applications on the STB to store a token for retrieval by Lightning Application.Applications like netflix will use this to store a token that Lightning Application will retrieve and use the data to gather data from the OTT provider that can be used to populate a continue watching panel in the UI.This service will be enabled/disabled using an TR181 parameter.
Continue watching enables the users to resume a program where they left off, begin a next episode in a program series after completing previous episode and seamlessly watch content, while maintaining the proper resume point in the program. Device supports API to set a token to pass to app to direct the app to continue watching.It supports a one click option to continue watching the last watched content in an OTT app.
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ContinueWatching API
ContinueWatching service is accessible through an API: ContinueWatching API
- For API information please refer ContinueWatching API
- To know code details and documentation please refer github-ContinueWatching