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hbbtv1.1.0

These notes apply between releases 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 of HbbTV:-

  • New functionalities
    • Added HbbTV 1.2.1 +DRM capability
    • Added HbbTV 1.2.1 +PVR capability
    • Added and extended OIPF classes that are not required by HbbTV 1.2.1
    • Added HbbTV security restrictions on channel change by broadcast independent applications
    • Added parsing of the simple application boundary descriptor
  • Other changes
    • The dynamic symbol table (needed to make some symbols visible to the NPAPI plugin) is now part of the HBBTV repository (npapiplugin/dynamic_symbol_table.txt)
  • Various bug fixes
  • API changes
    • Control functions (hbbtv.h)
      • Additional notification function: HBBTV_NotifyLowMemory
      • Additional functions to give the browser access to the DSMCC: HBBTV_DsmccSetCallback, HBBTV_DsmccSetCallback, F_HBBTV_DSMCC_FILE_CALLBACK
      • Additional functions for interaction with generic DRM system: HBBTV_DRMRegister, HBBTV_DRMUnregister, HBBTV_NotifyDRMMessageResult, HBBTV_NotifyDRMRightsError
      • Additional function HBBTV_SetFreesatCallbacks to set Freesat specific callback functions
    • Javascript extension interface (hbbtv_js.h)
      • Additional functions to fix the implementation of video/broadcast and a/v control selectComponent and unselectComponent
      • Additional functions for the new functionalities
    • System interface (hbbtv_sif_*.h)
      • Removed HBBTV_PVRRecord and added HBBTV_PVRRecordCRID and HBBTV_PVRRecordEventID instead
      • Additional PVR functions: HBBTV_PVRGetScheduledRecordingDetails, HBBTV_PVRReleaseScheduledRecordingDetails, HBBTV_PVRGetRecordingDetails, HBBTV_PVRReleaseRecordingDetails
      • Additional Service functions: HBBTV_GetNetworkID, HBBTV_GetMajorChannel, HBBTV_GetServiceLocked, HBBTV_GetServiceRunning
      • Extended Service structures: S_HBBTV_EVENT_DETAILS, S_HBBTV_SERVICE_DETAILS
      • Added HBBTV_GetDemuxPath to retrieve the demux path needed to configure the DSMCC engine
      • Changed S_HBBTV_COMPONENT_DETAILS to allow a negative value of component_tag
      • Removed the concept of RID from HBBTV_WBSetUrl and relative callback, the callback now passes the URL back with the result.
hbbtv1.1.0.txt · Last modified: 2020/11/18 15:59 (external edit)