The original German article makes it clear it's only about the web front end and some ancillary services, not the video streaming service as such. The latter seems to be mostly Akamai-based.
Exactly, that's why I wrote "the player" which is the most interesting tech.
The rest of the system wasn't very interesting back in the day, just an off-the-shelf CMS and internal feeds to pull in all the content from the different channels automatically.
The sites have changed quite a lot since then and they have added subscription content as well. Maybe they now have code which would be more interesting to open source.
The rest of the system wasn't very interesting back in the day, just an off-the-shelf CMS and internal feeds to pull in all the content from the different channels automatically.
Here is an old interview with the technical directors from back then explaining some of the internals: https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_2010-Q1_Mediathek.p...
The sites have changed quite a lot since then and they have added subscription content as well. Maybe they now have code which would be more interesting to open source.