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Enabling guest entitlements

Overview

OpenTV Video Platform supports guest entitlements. Guest entitlements allow a user who has entitlements for a channel and entitlements for the guest entitlements capability feature to invite a limited number of guests who do not have entitlements for the channel to watch it for a limited time.

This allows the user to create a guest entitlements room for a channel showing (for example) a football match and invite friends or family to watch it with them. The room has a predefined duration – playout will stop automatically when this time ends and the entitlement expires.

The guest entitlements feature only applies to live TV.

Prerequisites

For guest entitlements to work in a client application, the following must already be in place:

  • The Guest Entitlement Service (GES) must be deployed and the necessary supporting configuration added to BCM. Please contact your NAGRAVISION representative to request this.

  • A capability product for guest entitlements must have been created.

  • Guest entitlements must be enabled for the relevant editorial channels.

  • Guest entitlements must be enabled on the relevant product(s) that include the channels.
    The product can be a single channel product or one that includes multiple channels.

See Managing guest entitlements.

Use cases

There are four client-side use cases, which are explained in the following pages:

See also

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