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[NickFitz]

Sausages bacon and egg on half a sesame seed baton, with red sauce

(M&S Great British Bangers, Sainsbury's TTD applewood smoked bacon, Sainsbury's SO organic large free-range egg, Sainsbury's in-store bakery bread. And Heinz sauce, of course.)

[zeitghost]

Lunch was disgusting, consisting as it did of a ZeitScrambledEgg plus a Peters giant sausage roll, of which it can be said that it helps if you cook the fecking thing before eating half of it.

Tea was a rather more pleasant repast of Atlantic salmon (reduced from Morrisons) with small new potatoes (Pembroke and getting a bit long in the tooth) with peas and sweetcorn.

I saw Predator 2 in the kinema and thought it ok in its way.

I bought 6 Sherlock Holmes dvds this morning, Basil Rathbone being the aforementioned PI.

A bargain at 50 pence each.

Also acquired was Mechanic 2 with Jason Statham.

Dear old Charlie Bronson only ever made the 1, having been diverted into the Death Wish quintrology (if that's a word).

This afternoon I made the effort, finally, to drive down to the Maplins in Llanelli to buy a Freesat HD receiver to go with the HD telly.

Apparently there are a few more HD channels available on Freesat, rather than the limited Freeview offerings from the transmitter on Kilvey Hill.

[NickFitz]

This afternoon I made the effort, finally, to drive down to the Maplins in Llanelli to buy a Freesat HD receiver to go with the HD telly.

Apparently there are a few more HD channels available on Freesat, rather than the limited Freeview offerings from the transmitter on Kilvey Hill.

You'll be pleased to hear that I was involved in implementing various parts of your Freesat box's user interface - contract in Cambridge Science Park a few years ago

[NickFitz]

You'll be pleased to hear that I was involved in implementing various parts of your Freesat box's user interface - contract in Cambridge Science Park a few years ago

That's assuming it still looks something like this:

which is a photo I took of the telly hooked up to the Freesat-circuit-board-in-an-open-topped-box with which I worked. Here, it was connected to the standard test suite broadcast signal streamed locally, for the purpose of checking that alternative broadcasts of porn on a different channel to the original channel didn't show up in the programme guide when parental controls were enabled

[eek]

That means you had to work with MHEG5 you poor person...

Edit - thinking about it I'm sure I've got some MHEG5 generator code lurking somewhere from when I did some work on it

[NickFitz]

That means you had to work with MHEG5 you poor person...

Rings a bell, but the Freesat UI stuff I worked on was implemented in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - it's a browser app running on their own browser (called Galio), with all the lower level stuff (scheduling recordings, changing channels, all that kind of thing) exposed through an API called the Media Object Model, or MOM for short

The MOM is implemented in C++, and that in turn speaks to the low level device drivers. So box manufacturers just had to provide the details of the low-level API of the hardware, and ExClientCo would create drivers that supported whatever was needed, and you had yourself a working box

Well, you did once the UI was finally finished

[NickFitz]

In other news, I've decided not to bother going to the Chinese tonight, as my huge

Sausages bacon and egg on half a sesame seed baton, with red sauce

was enough of a meal for one day


1,045 calories apparently

[eek]

Rings a bell, but the Freesat UI stuff I worked on was implemented in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - it's a browser app running on their own browser (called Galio), with all the lower level stuff (scheduling recordings, changing channels, all that kind of thing) exposed through an API called the Media Object Model, or MOM for short

The MOM is implemented in C++, and that in turn speaks to the low level device drivers. So box manufacturers just had to provide the details of the low-level API of the hardware, and ExClientCo would create drivers that supported whatever was needed, and you had yourself a working box

Well, you did once the UI was finally finished

In your case then it would be the container stream that the C++ received and decrypted for the listings details... I'm not sure if I have the code but I remember it required both encoding and checksum generation before doing something else.

[NickFitz]

In your case then it would be the container stream that the C++ received and decrypted for the listings details... I'm not sure if I have the code but I remember it required both encoding and checksum generation before doing something else.

Sounds about right - the EPG data was one of the things presented by the MOM, probably through some arcane interface like MOM.EPG which would then have things like MOM.EPG.channels and so forth. But I can't remember much about it now - this was back in 2012 when it was still being called Freesat 2, though that later became something like Free>Time when the marketing people got hold of it

[NickFitz]

Just assembled an IKEA flatpack; a cabinet, which will (through the devilish cunning of Scandinavian design) form one end of the new desk. Tomorrow, I need to screw two legs on to the desktop, then put the things together and start assembling an unruly clutter on top