Mhp-plugin

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Contents 1 Description 2 Hardware requirements 3 Software requirements 4 Installation 5 Configuration 5.1 Parameter 6 Problems 7 Links

[edit] Description

The european Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard, specifies the transmission and presentation of interactive content in digital TV. MHP makes it possible for telestations to broadcast additionally program attendant information.

The MHP plugin tries to bring MHP to VDR.

[edit] Hardware requirements

[edit] Software requirements

• directfb (see softdevice-plugin)
• kaffe (java)
• ffmpeg

[edit] Installation

To install kaffe

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf kaffe-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd kaffe-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
            --with-threads=unix-pthreads \
            --enable-pure-java-math
make
make install

To install ffmpeg

tar xvzf ffmpeg-<VERSION>.tar.gz
ln -s ffmpeg-<VERSION> ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
            --enable-shared
make
make install

For the plugin see plugin installation.

[edit] Configuration

[edit] Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-L DIR	--lib=DIR	The plugin directory as given to VDR with the -L option (required if set for VDR!)
-a DIR	--apppath=DIR	The path to local applications (default: /usr/local/vdr/apps)
-o MOD	--output=MOD	mpegpes for MPEG-1 output (default) sdl for preliminary SDL output

[edit] Problems

[edit] Links

[1]	http://www.powarman.de	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://sourceforge.net/projects/interactive-vdr	Plugin homepage (current)
[3]	http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net	ffmpeg homepage
[4]	http://www.kaffe.org	kaffe homepage
[5]	http://www.openmhp.org	OpenMHP Site