TVSDK for Android 2.7 includes a variety of features that you can implement in your players.
TVSDK capabilities:
VOD and live/linear playback
Management of the playback window, including methods that play, stop, pause, seek, and retrieve the playhead position
Support for full-event replay
Closed captioning (608, 708, WebVTT) and alternate forms of audio for increased accessibility
Controls for text styling in captions
DVR capability, fast forward, and fast rewind (the latter two are known as trick-play mode)
Adaptive bit rate (ABR) logic and initial set up of ABR controls
Live manifest failover support
Adjustable playback buffers
Fragment duration, size, and time-to-download tracking support
Advertising
VPAID 2.0
Client-side ad stitching
Seamless ad insertion, including support for VAST/VMAP
Support for custom cue tags for ads
Support for marking, replacing, and deleting C3 ads
Customizable content/ad insertion workflow including blackout signaling
Content protection
Access to digital rights management (DRM)-related services
Playback of HLS streams unencrypted or with Protected HTTP Live Streaming (PHLS)
Resolution-based output control, based on DRM policy
Video and ad tracking
QoS event tracking
Notifications that help TVSDK and your application to communicate asynchronously about the status of videos, advertisements, and other elements. Notifications also log activity.
Logging
Debug logging
Tracking support for fragment duration, size, and time-to-download.