Hello,
I have adapted the standalone "redbutton" program (http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/) into a plugin for VDR. This allows me to view the "Redbutton" data service broadcast by the BBC.
This is a preliminary version of the plugin and it is not robust enough for general use, but if anyone would like to experiment with it, the source code can be downloaded from http://pond-weed.com/redbutton/
Regards, John Williams
Dear John,
Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 11:49 +0000 schrieb John Williams:
I have adapted the standalone "redbutton" program (http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/) into a plugin for VDR. This allows me to view the "Redbutton" data service broadcast by the BBC.
great to hear that. To everyone as ignorant about MHEG as me please read [1]. John, thank you for the screenshots on your project site. Unfortunately MHEG is not available in Germany according to [1].
This is a preliminary version of the plugin and it is not robust enough for general use, but if anyone would like to experiment with it, the source code can be downloaded from http://pond-weed.com/redbutton/
I could not find a repository on your site. I think it greatly eases the task to provide patches. If you do not want to set one up yourself and you need a host you could use for example [2].
Thanks,
Paul
[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MHEG-5 [2] http://projects.vdr-developer.org/
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:26:08 +0100 Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 11:49 +0000 schrieb John Williams:
I have adapted the standalone "redbutton" program (http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/) into a plugin for VDR. This allows me to view the "Redbutton" data service broadcast by the BBC.
great to hear that. To everyone as ignorant about MHEG as me please read [1]. John, thank you for the screenshots on your project site. Unfortunately MHEG is not available in Germany according to [1].
As far as I am aware, this is only used by the BBC in the UK, and by a few other countries. I believe some other countries use a different system called MHP.
This is a preliminary version of the plugin and it is not robust enough for general use, but if anyone would like to experiment with it, the source code can be downloaded from http://pond-weed.com/redbutton/
I could not find a repository on your site. I think it greatly eases the task to provide patches. If you do not want to set one up yourself and you need a host you could use for example [2].
Most of the code was written by Simon Kilvington as a stand-alone program, and I want to co-operate with him, so I need to talk to him about this.
Regards, John
hi John!
sounds really great! Unfortunately this is not working with my vdr 1.7.17. Compiling all works fine as in your instructions. But if I include both plugins with -Predbutton and -Pmheg I can't connect to xineliboutput any more. :(
Anybody knows what modifications are needed to fix this issue?
kind regards
Newsy
--- John Williams john@pond-weed.com schrieb am Sa, 19.3.2011:
Von: John Williams john@pond-weed.com Betreff: Re: [vdr] Plugin for MHEG (BBC RedButton service) An: vdr@linuxtv.org Datum: Samstag, 19. März, 2011 13:48 Uhr On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:26:08 +0100 Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 11:49 +0000 schrieb John
Williams:
I have adapted the standalone "redbutton"
program
(http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/) into a
plugin for VDR. This
allows me to view the "Redbutton" data service
broadcast by the BBC.
great to hear that. To everyone as ignorant about MHEG
as me please
read [1]. John, thank you for the screenshots on your
project site.
Unfortunately MHEG is not available in Germany
according to [1].
As far as I am aware, this is only used by the BBC in the UK, and by a few other countries. I believe some other countries use a different system called MHP.
This is a preliminary version of the plugin and
it is not robust
enough for general use, but if anyone would like
to experiment with
it, the source code can be downloaded from http://pond-weed.com/redbutton/
I could not find a repository on your site. I think it
greatly eases
the task to provide patches. If you do not want to set
one up
yourself and you need a host you could use for example
[2].
Most of the code was written by Simon Kilvington as a stand-alone program, and I want to co-operate with him, so I need to talk to him about this.
Regards, John
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Hi John,
On 19 March 2011 12:48, John Williams john@pond-weed.com wrote:
I could not find a repository on your site. I think it greatly eases the task to provide patches. If you do not want to set one up yourself and you need a host you could use for example [2].
Most of the code was written by Simon Kilvington as a stand-alone program, and I want to co-operate with him, so I need to talk to him about this.
Did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm thinking, with both the Olympics and Wimbledon coming up shortly, it would be useful to get MHEG up-and-running on my VDR install, so I was going to try out your plugin later. It would be useful to at least have a bug tracker available so that I can raise any issues I find.
Perhaps you could create a project on http://github.com and import the code there?
On a related note, I couldn't see a single tar on your website, so I grabbed the source files from the http dir listing and packaged it up as vdr-plugin-redbutton.tar.bz2 to make it easier for people to download in one go.
Mirrored here: http://mir.cr/OQYPHY33
On 2 May 2012 14:45, Dominic Evans oldmanuk@gmail.com wrote:
Did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm thinking, with both the Olympics and Wimbledon coming up shortly, it would be useful to get MHEG up-and-running on my VDR install, so I was going to try out your plugin later. It would be useful to at least have a bug tracker available so that I can raise any issues I find.
Perhaps you could create a project on http://github.com and import the code there?
I managed to compile the plugin against 1.7.27. I had to make a couple of minor patches to cope with newer ffmpeg API changes, and to add -lswscale (the existing Makefile 'test' to add this wasn't working)
Unfortunately the mheg plugin generates lots of bad looking entries in my syslog : vdr: [2918] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
And launching the 'redbutton' plugin just displayed a small quarter sized shaded window in the top left of my screen, with no content.
So it looks like the plugin needs some updates to cope with vdr 1.7.x and 1920x1080 resolutions
Am 03.05.2012 10:16, schrieb Dominic Evans:
On 2 May 2012 14:45, Dominic Evansoldmanuk@gmail.com wrote:
Did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm thinking, with both the Olympics and Wimbledon coming up shortly, it would be useful to get MHEG up-and-running on my VDR install, so I was going to try out your plugin later. It would be useful to at least have a bug tracker available so that I can raise any issues I find.
Perhaps you could create a project on http://github.com and import the code there?
I managed to compile the plugin against 1.7.27. I had to make a couple of minor patches to cope with newer ffmpeg API changes, and to add -lswscale (the existing Makefile 'test' to add this wasn't working)
Unfortunately the mheg plugin generates lots of bad looking entries in my syslog : vdr: [2918] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
And launching the 'redbutton' plugin just displayed a small quarter sized shaded window in the top left of my screen, with no content.
So it looks like the plugin needs some updates to cope with vdr 1.7.x and 1920x1080 resolutions
Hi Dominic,
Do you have any news on this? There are now a couple of BBC London Olympics streams available in test mode:
http://channelpedia.yavdr.com/gen/DVB-S/S28.2E/uk/#freesat%20BBC%20Olympic%2...
It would be great to have nice MHEG support with VDR 1.7.x. :)
Cheers, Henning
Is anyone able to confirm whether this plugin with a "full feature", hardware decoder DVB-S card please?
Regards,
Richard
John Williams wrote:
Hello,
I have adapted the standalone "redbutton" program (http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/) into a plugin for VDR. This allows me to view the "Redbutton" data service broadcast by the BBC.
This is a preliminary version of the plugin and it is not robust enough for general use, but if anyone would like to experiment with it, the source code can be downloaded from http://pond-weed.com/redbutton/
Regards, John Williams
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