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Penthera's Cache & Carry iOS SDK enables best-in-class video download and playback solutions for a wide variety of content providers.

Penthera Cache & Carry™ SDK

Our mission is to create true "TV Everywhere"

Penthera develops and deploys software products facilitating the delivery of TV shows, movies and other video content over wireless networks to mobile devices. Penthera’s customers have included network providers, content owners, network operators, device manufacturers and other entities that need to deliver media content securely, reliably and verifiably to their customers and employees. Penthera’s software is installed in millions of mobile devices and is protected by a portfolio of U.S. patents and has powered billions of video downloads on Apple and Android mobile devices.

Customers use Cache & Carry in their apps to enable:

• Download2Go: Add TV/Movie "download and play later" to an existing streaming app
• Personal DVR: Automatically push consumer-selected content to mobile devices and sync recordings from their DVR
• Electronic Sell-Through (EST): Mobile pay-per-view movie/TV service
• FastPlay™ Streaming: Enables mobile video app users to launch videos the instant they hit play, with no buffering.

Product Details

Core Features

The SDK offers an extensive range of capabilities. Check out the Client Developers Guide in this repository for a general overview, or the detailed documentation in VirtuosoClientEngine/docs for a more complete review.

At a glance, the SDK enables:

• Turbo Downloading: Our blazing-fast engine downloads a wide range of video formats faster than any other solution currently available
• Background Download: Cache & Carry initiates and continues download even when the app is not running
• Configurable Business Rules: Our engine enables customers or end users to set key business rules including: battery level cutoff, network usage, max storage, content windowing, etc.
• Autonomous Delivery: You can use the app to "push" new TV shows/movies in the background to your end-users' mobile devices

Getting Started

This repository contains the Cache & Carry SDK binaries, along with a sample application (with source code) that demonstrates how to use the SDK. A complete startup guide is included in the Client Developers Guide documentation.

In order to compile the demo app, you will need to obtain a public/private key pair, which enables the SDK and provides access to our backplane server for a trial period. Please contact Penthera Support to obtain these keys.

Licensing

Penthera's Cache & Carry SDK is licensed for production use under commercial terms. Please contact Penthera Sales to request terms.