Here in New Zealand they have decided to use MPEG-4 (AVC/H264) for the broadcast of DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television). Selected broadcast tests have just started in Wellington and Christchurch, with occasional limited testing happening in other regions. At this stage the Auckland testing isn’t expected to start until January 2008, but luckily I’ve managed to [...]
We now have support for an additional Open Source MHEG-5 stack, the RedButton standalone MHEG-5 engine. Again I’ve included 3 sample screen shots of the RedButton engine in action. The video window is empty as we are running the engine in a debug mode. At the moment there are just a couple of minor issues [...]
I’ve now managed to clean up the code enough to send the patches onto the MythTV team. Take a look at their trac ticket #3162. The attached patch will work against MythTV 0.20 out of SVN. For the moment I’ve mapped the FreeView MHEG EPG key onto F12, but this might change. Still needs a [...]
Many thanks to David Matthews who provided a bunch of patches for the existing MythTV MHEG-5 stack so that the additional features required for the NZ EPG would work.As you can see I’ve included 3 sample screen shots which are taken from a slightly modified build of MythTV 0.20-fixes. Two are of the standard EPG, [...]
I’ve now patched my copy of the MythTV source to map the RED button key (F2) to code 300. This was a quick change in mhi.cpp for the purpose of debugging the stream. It appears that here in NZ code 300 is required to activate the MHEG-5 based EPG. This new build meant that when [...]
