[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #10072: [PATCH] freemheg: Support bitmap backgrounds used by BBC/Freesat

[David Matthews]

On 03/10/2011 16:21, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:36 +0100, David Matthews wrote:
>
>> I did enquire
>> about this when Freesat first appeared but it seemed it was being kept
>> under wraps.  Anything that was implemented was just what I could guess.
>
>> Currently I can't actually test this and the other patches because I'm
>> limited to terrestrial at the moment but I'll definitely test them out
>> once I get my satellite dish back.
>
> I'm not sure how applicable these changes would be to FreeView.  I would
> have thought that the BBC would want an equivalent service for both.
> But as I live in France I've not been able to try FreeView.
>

The MHEG profile for Freeview (1.06) has been available for a long time 
(see http://www.dtg.org.uk/publications/books_mheg.html) so I was 
assuming that the FreeSat profile would similarly be available.  I did 
enquire on the BBC backstage mailing list and got a reply ( 
http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg07628.html ) 
that suggested there was some chance it might appear eventually.  The 
BBC have released an open source Java application that supports the 
Freesat profile ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/mhegplus ) and at 
least seems to list the resident programs in the profile.  It might be 
possible to use that at least as a check on the implementation.

David