hbbTV (TV 2.0) plugin or not please vote (5 Viewers)

[MrCrabs]

Hi, i'm agree with you, but we are few issue :

1. We can't force Dev for work on this enhancement
2. Dev's working hard on the next TV-Engine, we prefer not add many enhancement for now (Globally MP start to a new chapter since 1.3)
3. don't forget @Developers working on their Free time !

Oh, I didn't want to sound that harsh. I just wanted to know if there is anyone working on this or thinking about. And of course I know developers are sacrificing their free time for MP which I really reslly appreciate!

Your 2nd point: Is there some place I can read more about developement of MP's next TV-Engine?

 

[azzuro]

Oh, I didn't want to sound that harsh.

No problem !
About HBB, discussed with Dev, is not a easy function to add because, we need use HTML programming ! and many other thing ! it is not ready for soon

 

[dishwasher]

Yes. It seems that it is very difficult to realize hbbtv for Windows-Software.
I bought the plugin for the DVBViewer and they worked 2 years on it.
http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/52850-hbbtv/

 

[netexplorer]

Why not use Firefox or Opera to display the html content? I think both should be capable. For Firefox exist an plugin.

 

[MrCrabs]

At the DVBviewer page they referr to some professor in germany who's institute helped developing the HBBTV functionality. I will try to get in contact with them, maybe they can help.

 

[joecrow]

I need it too, I am now seeing 7 HBBTV chanells on DVBT in Southern Germany and would really like to be able to view them with MP.

 

[MrCrabs]

Well, I sent an e-mail to that institute, but never got an answer. Aren't there any publications out there on how to implement Hbb-TV?

 

[netexplorer]

Sure, there're some publications out. The specification is published here: http://www.hbbtv.org/pages/about_hbbtv/specification.php

 

[Data45000]

Is there any progress?

 

[JSurf]

Would love to see this feature.

Some Information about HBBTV since I'm just in progress on programming HBBTV-Web-Pages at my regular job:

Most HBBTV-Devices (TV-Sets) are based on either Opera or Webkit, with Webkit getting more and more popular.

HBBTV-Signal is muxed in the TS as a so-called AIT-Stream. The AIT contains either just a link to a Webpage or a simple start page.
So first this must be demuxed from the stream to get the html code or link.
Then it should be pretty easy to display the page in a Webkit Browser embedded in Mediaportal, since it is mostly standard HTML.
There are some special html object-Tags that need to be supported so you can display the video stream in a little Window in the HBBTV-Webpage or in the background and to playback On-Demand Video-Content (it is mostly mp4).

Some Links:
http://itv.mit-xperts.com/hbbtvtest/
http://blog.sybit.de/2012/03/hbbtv-fur-anwendungs-entwickler-–-teil-1/
http://blog.sybit.de/2012/03/hbbtv-fur-anwendungs-entwickler-–-teil-2/
http://blog.sybit.de/2012/03/hbbtv-fur-anwendungs-entwickler-–-teil-3/

Sorry no time left to help out on the programming side