What I've been working on at work

[lethargic_man]

For the first five years of my time here working for Auntie, I was working on interactive services for digital terrestrial television (OnDigital/Freeview), written in the language MHEG-5. However, MHEG is not very easy to program, and two and a half years ago I was handed the skeleton of a wrapper around MHEG, called MHEG+, to implement. I enthusiastically not only did so, but set about developing a suite of tools to make programming MHEG+ easier, and the resulting programmes more robust.

Last month, the BBC held a hack day called Mashed, in which members of the public were introduced to MHEG+, and encouraged to try and put together programs in it. Here's a report of the event, including a screenshot of a couple of the tools I have developed:

© BBC MMVIII, yadda yadda yadda.

I don't think I can say any more at the present, but watch out for continuing developments here in the next little while. :o)

Comments

[grumpyolddog.livejournal.com]

I consider this high in Awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

Looks cool! You are the Eclipse-meister.

-darren

MHEG+

[(Anonymous)]

hi.. Im looking for a copy of MHEG+. Do you know where i can get/buy a copy? Im at stevefigo at yahoo dot it.

thanks
Stve

Re: MHEG+

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Steve,

The BBC intends to release the MHEG+ toolkit to the wider world in the hopefully near future, once it has decided on appropriate licensing. Keep an eye on the Press Red (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pressred/) blog, where the release, I'm sure, will be announced.