Sunday 15 February 2015

Capture HbbTV data with DVBStreamExplorer

In this post I will demonstrate how you can capture HbbTV data using DVBStreamExplorer. You will need DVBStreamExplorer Professional Edition for this exercise.
You can then study the HbbTV application offline. You can find more information about HbbTV here: https://www.hbbtv.org/.
First we need to find a service that contains HbbTV application. In this example I will find a service on Astra 19E.
You can find such service in this list: http://dtvlist.dvbstreamexplorer.com/dvbs.html. Look for 'hbbtv' in feature field.
Or you can do a complete SI scan of Astra 19E with DVBStreamExplorer. After completing SI scan switch to service view and you should see something similar to below.


Scroll to the far right to see features field and look for 'hbbtv'.


It can be seem that first service in the list, ORF SPORT+, features HbbTV.
Open the tuning window and tune on 11244H where the ORF SPORT+ service can be found.
Open Transport Stream Monitor (DVB) and start scanning. After a few seconds of scanning you should be able to select ORF SPORT+ from service drop-down list.


Now go to the DSM-CC tab. You should see list of DSM-CC streams found in service. For ORF SPORT+ there will only be one on PID 0x1c2b. Enable scanning of the PID in list.


It will now scan for DSM-CC data. This may take a short while. Once all DSM-CC data has been acquired the Object Carousel tab will be populated with file/folder structure. The content of files will also be shown as ASCII/Hex. Below can be seen partly content of a CSS file named min_portal_1_0_6.css which is part of HbbTV application.


And below is shown content of min_config_1_0_6.js which is a JavaScript file also part of HbbTV application.


Finally below shows partial content of index.html which is a HTML file also part of HbbTV application.


You can now stop scanning to enable file menu. From here the entire Object Carousel be saved. Directory structure in OC is preserved when saved to file system. You can now open the files in your favourite text editor for further examination.