[Redbutton-devel] SF.net SVN: redbutton: [432] www/index.html

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Revision: 432
          http://redbutton.svn.sourceforge.net/redbutton/?rev=432&view=rev
Author:   skilvington
Date:     2007-09-28 07:53:06 -0700 (Fri, 28 Sep 2007)

Log Message:
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describe mhegc on the web page

Modified Paths:
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    www/index.html

Modified: www/index.html
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--- www/index.html	2007-09-28 14:40:24 UTC (rev 431)
+++ www/index.html	2007-09-28 14:53:06 UTC (rev 432)
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 Both rb-download and rb-browser can be run on the same host,
 or rb-download can be run on a host with a DVB card and rb-browser can be run on a remote frontend without a DVB card.
 <P>
-The source for both is released under the GPL and can be
+If you want to write your own MHEG applications, you can use the mhegc compiler to generate the ASN1 format files rb-browser expects.
+<P>
+The source is released under the GPL and can be
 <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=158629">downloaded here.</A>
 <P>
 Just un-tar them and type 'make'.
@@ -218,6 +220,25 @@
 <P>
 If the Tiresias Screenfont is not available, rb-browser first tries to use the FreeSans font instead. If this is also not available, rb-browser uses whatever scalable font Xft returns for "sans".
 Note that these fonts will have different metrics and so may not fit into the spaces in the MHEG apps designed for Tiresias.
+<H2>mhegc</H2>
+Usage:
+<PRE>
+mhegc [-vv] [-o &lt;output_file&gt;] [&lt;input_file&gt;]
+</PRE>
+Will convert the &lt;input_file&gt; (or stdin if no filename is given) from the MHEG text form into the ASN1 form.
+The DER encoded ASN1 object will be stored in the given output file (or in a file named "a" if no -o option is given).
+<P>
+The redbutton-author package contains a "Hello World" example from
+<a href="http://www.digvid.info/mheg5/hello_world.php">http://www.digvid.info/mheg5/hello_world.php</a>.
+To compile the Hello World example, do this:
+<PRE>
+mhegc -o helloworld/startup helloworld/startup.txt
+mhegc -o helloworld/hello.mhg helloworld/hello.mhg.txt
+</PRE>
+Then to run it:
+<PRE>
+rb-browser helloworld/
+</PRE>
 <H2>Contact Details</H2>
 I can be contacted here: s.kilvington at eris dot qinetiq com.
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