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DigitalTV MHP Development Tutorials

Posted by Hemos on from the get-your-TV-on dept.

Cpt Kirk writes "For anyone wanting to get into digital interactive tv development using MHP, we've got a couple of tutorials online for you, check em out and let us know if they're helpful. Esgem MHP Resources"

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  1. the future of home entertainment? by tps12 · · Score: 2
    I don't know about anyone else, but I find this incredibly exciting. Interactive TV is just around the corner, and it's going to change everything.

    Imagine watching a conference, and being able to ask a question from around the world. When real-time electronic translation becomes a reality, you don't even have to speak the same language as the person you're talking to!

    Imagine watching sports, and choosing the angle of view!

    The possibilities are literally endless. Let's jump on this, and Linux will be the OS that leads interactive TV into the new age of entertainment.

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  2. What? by Webmonger · · Score: 2

    Does anyone know what this story's about? I mean, seriously.

    MHP something? From whatsisname? Something about digital TV?

    Sigh.

    1. Re:What? by JKR · · Score: 2, Informative
      Basically, MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) is about authoring and delivering applications to your set top box (or MHP-enabled TV) along with the MPEG video and audio streams. Java is the standard language used, as now mandated by the MHP specification, and HAVi provides the specification for the Java-based user interface classes - things like HListGroup, HTextButton etc.). I co-ordinated part of the HAVi specification for a period (the Java user interface code) up to the release of the HAVi1.1 specification.

      For example, the tired old stock-ticker applet running in real time alongside your news channel, or the navigator application that tells you what's on now and next (although this would probably be resident on the device.) are MHP apps.

      HAVi is more than that, though. HAVi is a firewire-based peer-to-peer network for home A/V equipment, enabling a "dumb" device like a CD-player to ask a "smart" device like a TV to display it's UI for it, on any TV in the house. I'm using "dumb" and "smart" here to refer to whether the HAVi device has a Java VM & display capability.

      It's interesting that the site chose HListGroup - it's the UI widget that caused more pain and suffering than all the others put together, because it's so much more complex than simple stuff like a button.

      Sadly, I'm not working on HAVi any longer. I'm sure someone here has current knowledge, though.

      Jon.

    2. Re:What? by Webmonger · · Score: 2

      Thanks for clearing that up, Jon. Someone should have moderated you up.

  3. Multimedia Home Platform by Martin+Spamer · · Score: 2


    MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) is essentially a system for encoding and displaying HTML pages extracted from a DVB/MPEG stream.