Links
This is not intended to be a complete list of all of the information about MHP, OCAP or JavaTV that is out there on the Web, but it should give you a good starting point. Basically, stuff gets added as and when I find it. If you want the latest MHP news, check out the official MHP web site. For more MHP links, check out Juha Laakso's excellent page of MHP links
The Interactive TV Web is not responsible for the accuracy or content of any external links that are listed on this page.
A list of the events at which the DVB project will be taking part, and where MHP-related products and events may be taking place, can be found at the official DVB web site.
Specifications
The MHP specification
- Version 1.0
- Version 1.0.1
- Version 1.0.2
- Version 1.0.3
- Errata #2 for version 1.0.3
- Version 1.1
- Version 1.1.1
- DVB Blue Book A068r1 (Version 1.1.2 draft)
- Version 1.0.3 JavaDoc
- Version 1.1.1 JavaDoc
- PVR Extensions to MHP
Globally Executable MHP (GEM)
OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP)
- OpenCable specifications page
- OCAP 1.0 profile, version I16
- OCAP 2.0 profile, version I01 (No longer available)
- OCAP Digital Video Recorder, version I02
- OCAP Front Panel Extension, version I01
- OCAP Home Networking Extension, version I02
OpenCable Enhanced TV Specifications
- OpenCable Enhanced TV - Binary Interchange Format 1.0, version I02
- OpenCable Enhanced TV Application Messaging Specification, version I02
- OpenCable Enhanced TV User Interface Guidelines
ATSC Digital TV Application Software Environment (DASE)
ATSC Advanced Common Application Platform (ACAP)
Sun JSR 242 ('On Ramp To OCAP')
NorDig
- NorDig specifications page
- Basic receiver specification, version 1.0.1
- Unified receiver specification, version 1.0.1
- Rules of operation specification, version 0.9
DGTVI
DAVIC
The HAVI Level 2 UI
- Full specification (PDF)
- API Javadoc (Zip)
Java and related specifications from Sun
- The JDK 1.1 API documentation
- PersonalJava 1.2a
- The JavaTV Specification
- The Sun specifications for DVB
- The JMF 1.0 specification
Other useful specifications
- Bitstream's PFR font format
- The Tiresias font (the standard MHP font)
- DVB specifications for download from ETSI
- ATSC standards for US digital TV systems
- SCTE/ATSC standards
Organisations
- DVB
- The official MHP web site
- DVB Services - the MHP Root Certificate Authority
- DAVIC
- The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) - publishers of the MHP and related specifications
- HAVi
- NorDig (Scandinavian DTV standards body)
- The German MarComm Group
- DGTVI, The Italian DTV organisation
- The official DTT site of the regional government of Catalunya
- More technical news from the regional government of Catalunya
- Digitag (Digital terrestrial TV action group)
- DGTVi (The Italian digital TV group)
- NIST DASE home page
- CableLabs (home of OpenCable and OCAP)
- ATSC
- The Society Of Cable Telecommunication Engineers - responsible for some US standards for digital cable TV
- Sun's Java site
Tools
- XleTView - an open source MHP implementation (partial support only)
- OpenMHP - an open source MHP implementation (partial support only)
- The reference implementation of JavaTV - from Sun Microsystems (warning - this is not fully MHP compatible, but since the source is distributed it's a useful reference)
- MFramework - A framework for MHP developers
- Goonie - a DVB-HTML browser from Nordcom (free trial availalbe)
- CreaTV - an open source object carousel generator
- A partial MHP implementation - from devicetop.com
- An experimental service for getting certificates to sign your MHP applications - from Actalis (generates test certificates only)
- Broadcast Signing Engine - an open source tool for generating MHP security files
- MHPTester, a tool for testing the features of MHP implementations - Open source, from RTT
- DVBSnoop - an open source tool for analysing DVB transport streams
- DVBCC - an open-source class library for generating object carousels
- mhpspec - a subset of the MHP Security File Generator from Unisoft
- A trial version of AltiComposer - from Alticast
- A trial version of Cardinal Studio - from Cardinal Information Systems (alternative link)
- A demo version of Sublime iTV Suite - from Sublime Software
- A demo version of ModelStream - from Emuse Technologies (requires OpenTV SDK)
- A trial version of JAME from Fraunhofer IMK
- Doc2Java, a tool for converting JavaDoc files into Java skeleton source code - Freeware, written by Immo Benjes.
Discussion forums
- The official MHP forum
- JavaTV Developer forum
- MHPDev.net
- Cardinal Studio Developer forum
- DeviceTop Forums
- The Osmosys developer forums
- The XleTView developer forums
- Lookup.tv MHP developer forums
Books
Apart from our own book, which is available from all good bookstores, there are a couple of other books that discuss open standards for iTV middleware.
- ITV Handbook: Technologies and Standards (Edward M. Schwalb)
- Interactive TV Technology & Markets (H.O. Srivastava)
- Multimedia and Interactive Digital TV: Managing the Opportunities Created by Digital Convergence (Margherita Pagani)
- Digital Television: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Principles of the DVB System (Herve Benoit)
- The Essential Guide to digital set-top boxes and interactive TV (Gerard O'Driscoll)
- Digital Interactive TV and Metadata (Artur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, Seppo Kalli) - the homepage for this book
News services
- Advanced-television.com
- Broadcast Engineering
- broadcastpapers.com
- Cable & Satellite International
- digitaltelevision.com
- BroadbandBananas
- DigiTV.de (German)
- DigiTV.fi
- itv-content (German)
- iTV Marketer
- informitiv
- Media Visions journal - interactive TV reports
- TVDI - Spanish iTV portal
- MHP.org news & events
- Screen Digest
Technical tutorials
- Using and securing the return channel - A Sony tutorial on using the return channel
- A basic introduction to Java and Xlets - From Espial.
- The JMF 1.0 programmer's guide - From Sun Microsystems
- MHP for application developers - BOF at JavaOne 2002
- JavaTV API technical overview - Session at JavaOne 2002
- Developing DVB-Java applications - A semi-technical presentation on DVB-J applications from Philips
- MHPDev.net
- An introduction to MHP 1.0 and MHP 1.1 - White paper from BBC R&D written by someone involved in the standardisation process
- The DVB MHP Internet Access profile - White paper from BBC R&D written by someone who helped standardise it (also a paper given at IBC 2001)
- A presentation on DVB-HTML - From Thomson
- An article on DVB-HTML - From Canal+
- Guidelines for developing DVH-HTML content - From Ortikon Interactive (free registration required)
- MHP session from JavaOne, 2001 - a good introduction to MHP
- Java In The Living Room? - A semi-technical MHP presentation from Philips
- A more general digital TV tutorial (Spanish)
General Overviews
- An excellent and thorough overview of MHP in Europe - from the MHP knowledge base
- MHP session from JavaOne, 2001 - a good introduction to MHP
- MHP Presentation from Philips - Powerpoint format
- An overview of MHP
- A dissertation on MHP and authoring tools (German)
- The Multimedia Home Platform: Creating a Multimedia World in the STB - A general overview of an MHP system
- Wikipedia's (relatively poor) entry for MHP
- MHP: The need for a standard - white paper from WIPRO (free registration needed to view). A high-level overview, but may be useful
- MHP demo videos from BroadbandBananas - examples of MHP applications
- Article from Sharp on MHP migration
- A paper from Micronas - presented at the International IC conference in China (free registration required)
- High-level introduction to MHP - written for FACS. My comments on this article are also available.
- MHP lecture from Weimar University - German (Translation of this page from Google)
- A discussion of set-top boxes and MHP from the Technical University of Braunschweig - German, PDF format
- A basic overview of MHP at domotica.net - Spanish (Translation of this article from Google)
- Basis paper for the entry of MHP into the German free TV market - PDF format,German
- An article on the MHP reference implementation from IRT - German, PDF format
- An early white paper on MHP - from the chairman of the DVB commercial module PDF format
- Some information gathered at CeBit 2001 - German page, but MHP information is in English
Other links
- Juha Laakso's excellent collection of MHP links - Finnish
- MHP Information Gateway - More MHP links
- DTVJobs - Digital TV jobs in the UK
- The MHP knowledge base
- Information about MHP and digital TV in Catalunya
- Some information about Televisio de Catalunya's MHP appliations
- A German presentation about interactive TV and MHP - PowerPoint
- iTV end-game - A discussion of iTV in the US and OCAP
- A guide to the digital TV standards from Diffuse - not really MHP-specific, but it covers the MHP standard and ones related to it
- BroadbandBananas iTV resources - a number of presentations about interactive TV , both from a technology and a marketing perspective (not MHP-specific)
- Standards Q&A from NorDig
- Some information on the Multimedia Car Platform - based on MHP, PDF format
- More information on the Multimedia Car Platform - PDF format
Finally, the online interactive TV dictionary is a good place to find explanations for any terms that may not be familiar.