UK Digital Interactive - Red Button (MHEGPlugin)

[PMKnecht]

Hey, nice job. I would say the easiest way is to embed everything into the dll. Which means ts packets->dll.
If you run a thread inside which buffers the data could avoid time critical glitches etc.

I tested the application and it used 100% of my cpu. It seems to be that there is a thread running without a sleep. I'm not sure if it is caused by the application or the library, but i would be happy to find that out Can you please compile the dll as com object compatible? I never tried c# 2005 before (right now i'm downloading it), but i'm quite familiar with com handling in c++ and delphi. It would simplify the work extremely. My first shot is the public void OnApplicationIdle(object sender, EventArgs e), but well i would love to check that out

Peter

[PMKnecht]

C# seems to be way cooler than i thought

Can you please add something like:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
...

namespace MHEG
{
public interface ICreateFactory
{
IMHEG CreateEngine(IMHContext context);
}

[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
public class MHEGEngineFactory : ICreateFactory
{
public IMHEG CreateEngine(IMHContext context)
{
return new MHEngine(context);
}
}
}

in your application? It tooked a while to understand how this works

Maybe just a suggestion: The graphics class are not available on other languages. Could you either use an interface which requires all canvas actions (PutPixel, DrawLine etc.) instead? If not a simple render all in a HBITMAP would also work.

[mcraenz]

Hey McGoober, great to see this back underway

[McGoober]

Thanks for your feedback PMKnecht, probably not the best forum for this so could you log a bug on and we'll discuss the changes there. mheg-dotnet - Google Code

Thanks.

[Beechus]

Hey,

This is exactly what i've been searching for. Has there been any developments? Red button services would be totally brilliant

Thanks
Beechus

[ovld_nz]

How's this plugin going? In NZ we are using MHEG as well and this plugin would be quite handy. I can code a little and would be interested in helping if it's still active.

[wonkyd]

Hi McGoober,

There is another project going on on the digitalspy forum: Red Button Interactive (MHEG) browser for DVB-S cards... - Page 2 - Freesat - Digital Spy Forums trying to make a working interpretor. Maybe the projects could work together?

openmheg - Google Code

Having MHEG in media portal would be excellent, now the TV Pack 2008 adds it to Vista Media Centre.

[bfj]

As there hasn't been any activity from McGoober since February I'm assuming this project is dead which is a huge shame.

[funkstar]

For this to really work, I think MP2 would be required anyway as extensive changes MPs display code would likely be needed. Not something that is going to happen for MP1.

As MP2 is still up in the air as far as code developers can build on is concerned, so i'm guessing it's going to be a while before we see anything functional, even if developers were looking at it.

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hate to say this, but the lack of activity here and on the google code website both last updated february 2008, lead me to assume this is now a dead project.

Would be pleasantly surprised if it were not, but do not hold your breath.