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LG Smart TV SDK V1.5.0 Release Notes

Version 1.5.0 October 2011

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About This Document

Revision History

SDK Version

Document Version

Date Comment

1.5.0 1.5.0 October 20, 2011 New features and bug fixes in LG Smart TV SDK V1.5.0 are added.

1.4.0 1.4.0 August 22, 2011 New features and bug fixes in LG Smart TV SDK V1.4.0 are added.

1.3.1 1.3.1 July 19, 2011 New features and bug fixes in LG Smart TV SDK V1.3.1 are added.

1.3.0 1.3.0 June 24, 2011 - LG Browser and Flash IDE are updated. - LG Browser IDE bug is fixed.

1.2.0 1.2.0 May 25, 2011 LG Debugger and Flash sample applications are added.

1.1.0 1.1.0 May 13, 2011 3DTV related Flash open APIs are added.

1.0.3 1.0.3 April 28, 2011 Bugs are fixed and new features for LG Smart TV SDK V1.3 are added.

1.0.2 1.0.2 February 28, 2011 Bugs are fixed and new features such as target deployment are added.

1.0.1 1.0.1 January 11, 2011 Bugs are fixed. - Refer to the Bug fixes section in Chapter 4.

1.0.0 1.0.0 December 31, 2010 Initial Release

Purpose This document describes what is new in the LG Smart TV SDK V1.5.0, including bug fixes and new features, and references to the relevant technical documentation.

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Note, Caution

Note and caution are used to emphasize information. The following samples describe when each is used.

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Abbreviation


Abbreviation

The following table defines the abbreviations used in this document.

Abbreviation Description

DRM Digital Rights Management

DTV Digital Television

IDE Integrated Development Environment

WMDRM Windows Media DRM

Contents


Contents

1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 6

2 System Requirements ........................................................................................ 7

3 New Features and API Differences .................................................................... 8

4 Known Issues and Bug Fixes .......................................................................... 14

5 Related Documents .......................................................................................... 17

6 Help and Support .............................................................................................. 18

Tables

[Table 1] System Requirements ................................................................................................ 7

[Table 2] Software Requirements .............................................................................................. 7

[Table 3] Related Documents .................................................................................................. 17

1 Introduction

LG Smart TV SDK is a tool that provides developers with LG IDE plugin for Flash application

development, LG IDE plugin for Web application development, emulator, and related documents.

Content developers can create Flash and web contents for LG Smart TV easily using this SDK.

The SDK package consists of the following components:

LG IDE plugIn for Flash application development

LG IDE plugin for Web application development

LG Smart TV Emulator

LG Web Open API

LG Flash Open API

LG Flash Foundation Class

LG PLEX plugin

Related documents

Download Information

You can download the latest version of the SDK from the Tools & SDK section of the LG Developer

Community (http://netcastdev.lge.com/ ) website.

2 System Requirements

The LG Smart TV SDK requires the following:

[Table 1] System Requirements

Item Detail

Processor Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or higher

RAM 1 GB or higher

Operating system

- Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows 7

- 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows (In 64-bit Windows, some PCs can have Emulator performance down problem.)

Screen resolution 1280 x 1024 or higher

Video memory 256 MB or higher

[Table 2] Software Requirements

Item Detail

Flash Player Version 9 or higher

Microsoft DirectX Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher

Adobe Flash CS 4 Adobe Flash CS 4 or higher

Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers

Helios Service Release 2

Local server version Apache Tomcat v7.0

3 New Features and API Differences

This section provides information on new features provided in this release of the LG Smart TV SDK.

New Features

V1.5.0 1) Installation

64 bit Operating System is supported.

Installation path setting is supported.

Icons and images in Installshield are upgraded.

2) Common

Ad (Advertisement) APIs and sample applications are added.

Added sample applications: Banner/Video Ad Integration (Flash/Web)

Application Testing with USB on real TV is supported.

Configuring SDK path is supported.

3) LG IDE plugin for Web application development

Web API tutorial samples and documents are added.

W3C widget package importing function is added.

JSON editor is added.

Preview on Safari browser is added.

Icons and images in IDE are upgraded.

4) LG Smart TV Emulator

Supports elements of HTML5 which are currently supported by the NetCast platform.

The following buttons of remote control unit are enabled: [STOP], [PLAY], [PAUSE], and [INFO]

V1.4.0 1) LG Deployment Tool

Default value for setting ratio is changed into 1280 * 720. (Recommended ratio for Flash

application is changed in LG Smart TV and Media product UI Guidelines.)

2) Flash sample application

Sample applications are rebuilt with AS files to which external interfaces are applied.

V1.3.1 1) LG Browser IDE

LG Media Play is added.

LG Image Viewer is added.



Log View in LG Javascript debug toolkit perspective is updated.

2) Common

LG Configuration Tool is supported.

LG Log is added.

LG Snippets are supported.


Log feature is added.

4) LG Fonts are included in SDK package.

These fonts are installed in C:\Windows\Fonts directory of users PC.

Font names: LG Display, LG Display_HK, TiresiasScreenfont

Font file names: LG_Display.ttf, LG_Display_HK.ttf (for Taiwan and Hong Kong),

tt7268m_804.ttf

V1.3.0 1) LG Browser IDE

Billing (In-App Purchase) feature is added.

lge.apis.Service class is added.

Refer to LG Smart TV Billing Open API Reference Guide.

Image Viewer and Preview are added.

Debugger breakpoint and Variable lookup are added.

New JavaScript, HTML, CSS code snippets are added.

2) LG Flash IDE

Supports LG Flash IDE plugin installation regardless of language of Adobe Flash CS, which is

version 4 or higher. (The installation is performed through MXP installation)

Flash LG API classes are updated.

SDK 1.3.0( and above) doesnt have a backward compatibility with SDK 1.2.0. Developers need to

select [SWF developed by LG Smart TV SDK 1.3.0 and above] check box in Emulator to run the

Flash file developed by SDK 1.3.0 and above versions.

3) LG Flash Open API

Media channel type C is not used since the LG Smart TV SDK V1.1.0 version.

V1.2.0 1) LG Debugger in Browser IDE

LG Debugger for debugging JavaScript files.

Emulator debugging

Breakpoint / Variable view / Change variable

Debugger perspective

2) Project Manager in Browser IDE

Deploy Tool is available

LG Perspective

New Welcome page

3) LG Browser IDE

Auto-Completion is supported for additional APIs.

Directory of Deployment Tool is changed.

Code snippets are provided.



4) Flash sample applications are added:

3DTV related Flash sample is added.

get3DMode(), set3DMode() API are used.

Image View sample is added.

Read image index data to display thumbnail from XML format.

News sample is added.

Display news information from XML format.

RSS Reader sample is added.

Viewing RSS reader on live TV channels.

TV Information sample is added.

Displaying TV information on live TV channels.

V1.0.3 LG Smart Text supported for both browser and Flash applications.

TV Native UI is open.

Opened TV UI and users can check Home Board by clicking [Home] button in remote control.

Supports TP playing in emulator.

In emulator, set the TP file location first and get the channel information by Auto Tune of the TV

Setup menu. Then, you can check the TS play.

Supports USB device emulation

Supports DivX (partial support) : Refer to Annex A List of Supported Codecs and Containers in

Emulator User Guide.

Supports additional Flash Open APIs

terminateAddonApp, stopAddonAppLoading, executeAddonApp, back, exit,

getExecuteArgument

Filter is changed.

Filter name change

- AACParser.ax LG_AAC_Parser.ax

- AC3Parser.ax LG_AC3_Parser.ax

- MultiVMR9.dll LGMixerRenderer.dll

GUID change

- LGMixerRenderer.dll, WMFDemux.ax, mp3demux.ax

New API is added in Smart Text.

activateSmartText()

New features are included in Project Manager of LG Browser IDE plugin.

Project Creation Wizard with dropdown option for sample project

Web Server Start/Stop/Restart Options from LG Command menu and Project toolbar

Create Project/Run LG Project/Launch Emulator option provided from Project toolbar

Project Explorer Context menu (LG SDK Tools) provided

USB Deploy tool has options of selecting a folder/directory with all the set of files to be added.

Help content for LG Developer Community updated.

Deployment Tool updated to add project and create folder. .

V1.0.2 Supports installation on multi-booting and various-language OS environments.



Added Welcome window in Eclipse IDE.

Provides 10 Flash sample applications.

Supports deploying application to target by USB connection.

Supports automatic installation of LG Browser plugin.

Supports auto-completion and auto-correction for LG Browser Open APIs in Eclipse IDE.

V1.0.1

LG Flash Open API Reference Guide V1.8 document: Modified definition (overview) of Application,

Control and IO.

V1.0.0

1) LG Flash IDE Plugin

Project folder creation and template copy

Setting profiles for SWF publish

Building FLA and publishing SWF

Emulating SWF using the emulator

Quick links to the LG Flash Open API and LG Flash Foundation Class Guide.

Provides sample Flash applications

Supports LG Smart TV gadgets (Flash Foundation Class v2.0)

Adds three sample applications: TV Banner application, Stock Information Application and 1 to 16

Game


Developing Flash contents and applications using Open APIs

Easy access to LG DTV functions such as appication, control, media, and IO.

3) LG Flash Foundation Class

Provides LG Flash Classes for LG DTV Flash content development

4) LG Browser IDE Plugin

Eclipse-based IDE

Project creation using selected wizard

Apache server setting

Emulating web-based applications using the emulator

Provides sample web-based applications


Playing web content for TV with LG browser emulation

Supports web browsing through URL input.

Supports web browsing through local URL input.

Supports media streaming of MP4 (H.264, AAC), WMV, WMA, and MP3.

Supports Flash plugin

Supports URL history

Playing Flash content for TV with LG Flash emulation



Supports external Flash content play through SWF file selection.

Supports FLV media streaming

Remote control unit emulation

Operates same as the target remote control unit.

Emulates motion-based remote control using PC mouse.

Supports proxy configuraion

6) LG PLEX Plugin

Installing and uninstalling Emulator and Plex Media server with all its components silently.

Supporting PMS package and PLEX plugin

Providing Documents:

PLEX GUI Global Standard Guideline

PLEX Development Guide

PLEX Media XML

API Differences

V1.5.0 1) LG Flash Open API

Application.getAppArgument is added.

The following APIs are removed.

Control.getEventInfoList is removed.

IO.setNetworkSettings is removed.

Application.getExecuteArgument is removed.

2) FFC2.0 (Flash Foundation Class)

TVSystem.getAppArgument is removed.

3) Ad (Advertisement) API

The following APIs are added.

Web: BannerAd, VideoAd

Flash: BannerAdGadget, VideoAdGadget


The following APIs are removed in Application class due to the security issue.

executeAddonApp is removed.

terminateAddonApp is removed.

stopAddonAppLoading is removed.

switchToOSD API is removed in Control class because the OSD is fixed when used by Flash

applications.


3DTV related APIs are added.



get3DMode() API, set3DMode() API are added.

Input3DMode enum is added.

SUPPORT_3D in SupportType enum is added.

POPUP_3D in PopupType enum is added.


playClipFile() API is changed in SmartText.

MediaTransportType is changed.

4 Known Issues and Bug Fixes

The following issues are known to occur in LG Smart TV SDK.

Known Issues

V1.2.0 Log View is not implemented in LG Debugger of Browser IDE.

V1.0.3

MetaData (getPlayInfo) does not operate fully.

For MP3, the getPlayInfo function doesnt work currently.

No Signal is shown after auto tune.

Although TP play needs to be shown after auto tune, sometimes No Signal is displayed

when emulator is power on. (In this case, sound is normal.)

When changing a channel, TP play is normally displayed.

V1.0.0

WMDRM is not supported in the emulator

DRM secured contents viewing is not supported currently.

Magic Motion Remote Control is supported limitedly in the emulator

Acceleration sensor is not supported.

Bug Fixes

V1.5.0


Fixes a bug related to display of log messages which has not been shown on some PCs.

Hides console window that has been shown with Emulator program.

V1.4.0


Emulator crashing problem when operating Image Slide Show in USB emulation is solved.

Image clarity problem is solved in USB emulation.

Image rotation button is activated in USB emulation.

Noise occurring problem when choosing MP3 twice in USB emulation is solved.

Logging Feature Message format is applied with RFC 3164 (The BSD Syslog Protocol).



Emulator crashing problem when selecting Back button while video sample is running on Emulator

at the Debug mode of LG Browser IDE is solved.

Problem that the popup dialog is hidden behind the Emulator when selecting the "Run Flash" menu

is solved.

Fixes a bug related to execution of Plex sample on the emulator.


Fixes a bug related to receiving return code values from return objects in some APIs.

Fixes a bug related to forwarding Events when building with SDK V1.3.x.

3) Flash sample application

Fixes a bug related to execution of some Flash sample applications on emulator after building

them.

V1.3.1


Performance improvement (Especially, launching time is reduced.)

Video display size problem is fixed. (Video display area is able to render precisely.)

V1.3.0 1) LG Browser IDE plugin bug fixes Fixes a bug related to importing sample project into your workspace

V1.2.0 1) LG Browser IDE plugin bug fixes Emulator window will be blank for some sample applications debugging.

Refreshing of break point view.

Null pointer exception if URL has some space.

V1.0.3 1) LG Browser IDE plugin bug fixes Auto installer is updated to put files in drop-in folder and remove old contents.

Deployment tool is updated for project/directory add.

Project drop-down problem fixed.

Web server start/stop enable/disable partially fixed.

Invalid path accepting problem in deployment tool fixed.

V1.0.2 1) SDK bug fixes Changed Help contents in Eclipse IDE.

2) Emulator bug fixes Fixes a bug related to screen resizing during the video playback.

Fixes a bug for getting STOP event when a local media file playback is finished.



Fixes a bug in seek operation.

When seeking a position in local media files, the video play stops if the position exceeds a

half of the video runtime.

Fixes a bug in MP3 playback repetition.

Fixes a bug for getting Magic Motion Remote Control On/Off event in LG Browser.

Fixes bugs in LG Flash Open APIs.

getCommonPath : Gets the correct Flash file path.

playClipFile : Sets the video size normally.

Changes emulator launching process in Eclipse IDE.

When Eclipse IDE requests to launch emulator through LG Browser plugin, the IDE does not

try to launch it again and uses the emulator process already running. (In the old version, the

emulator was launched after killing the previous instance of emulator.)

V1.0.1 1) SDK bug fixes Fixes a bug in Flash class reference file.

Fixes a bug in Browser IDE project type list.

Fixes a bug in Browser IDE plugin installation information of Eclipse.

2) Emulator bug fixes Fixes a bug related to PCM Sound in Emulator. (Reduce audio jerks while playing PCM sound.)

Fixes a bug related to Farsi Language. (Changed font file.)

Changes the size for checking overscan.

5 Related Documents

Refer to the following documents:

[Table 3] Related Documents

Item Description

Getting Started with LG Smart TV SDK

This document introduces how to create Flash and web-based applications using the LG IDE plugins. This guide also includes how to use Plex emulator.

LG Smart TV SDK Installation Guide

This document is for introducing installation of the LG Smart TV SDK.

LG Smart TV Emulator User Guide

This document is for introducing how LG Smart TV Emulator works. This document covers the overview and user interface (UI) of the emulator, and how to use it.

LG Flash Content Design Guide for HDTV

This document is a design guide for the Adobe Flash applications for High Definition Television (HDTV) with the limited performance. These guidelines specified in this document may be modified when they are applied to devices with different specifications or as the HDTV performance improves.

LG Flash Open API Reference Guide

This document provides overview, architecture, data structures, and functions of the Flash Open APIs needed to develop Flash contents for LG DTV.

LG Flash Application Development Guide

This quick guide explains API relations, Flash development environment, sample code, common guide and mandatory APIs for LG Flash application development.

LG Web Application Reference Code Guide

This document describes guide on how to build web applications with video playback on LG NetCast platform.

LG Web Application Development Guide

This document provides description on the NetCast platform architecture, supported media formats, protocols and minimum LG NetCast Platform capabilities. Also, performance considerations are provided which web application developers should know.

LG Web Open API Reference Guide

This guide explains features, functions, and how-to-use information of the LG Web Open API required to create the Web application for LG Smart TV.

LG Flash Smart Text Development Guide

This document has been prepared to be used by content providers, service providers, content aggregators and flash developers as a reference of developing LG Smart Text.

You can download the documents from the Document section of the LG Developer Community

(http://netcastdev.lge.com/ ) website.

6 Help and Support

If you have questions or need technical support for LG Smart TV SDK, use discussion board or Q&A support in LG Developer Community. You can also contact supporting team directly at the following e-mail address. Discussion Board - LGE members: http://netcastdev.lge.com > Discussions > LG Smart TV SDK Board - Partner members: http://netcastdev.lge.com > Discussions > Partner Board Q&A Support http://netcastdev.lge.com > Support > Support Tickets > Submit Support Ticket E-mail [email protected]

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AbbreviationContentsTables

IntroductionDownload Information

System RequirementsNew Features and API DifferencesNew FeaturesAPI Differences

Known Issues and Bug FixesKnown IssuesBug Fixes

Related DocumentsHelp and Support