What language are DVR and cablebox interfaces/menus coded in?

[Arkitech]

I'm not a programmer but sometimes I wonder what language is used to code the menu's on cableboxes and dvrs. Do they use some kind of a database to store channel and time scheduling info? Also how complex is the frontend for these programs? I would imagine its something easily coded since the menu system is primarily a series of different sized boxes?. Kind of a geeky question I know but I'm just curious.

 

[Sphexi]

Probably Java.

 

[ultimatebob]

I would hope that it was coded in assembler in order to improve performance, although parts of it are probably written in C.

 

[LS21]

english, from the ones ive seen

 

[Tsaico]

Mine (Charter) is in Linux.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Tsaico
Mine (Charter) is in Linux.

I once programmed a whole OS in Linux!

 

[Shawn]

Java.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I would hope that it was coded in assembler in order to improve performance, although parts of it are probably written in C.

lol

 

[Pabster]

Most of them run a flavor of Linux.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I would hope that it was coded in assembler in order to improve performance, although parts of it are probably written in C.

lol

And Linux is written in...

 

[ViRGE]

Java. See: OCAP

 

[Drekce]

You should probably have asked this in the software forum. You got mostly a bunch of non answers. I would guess that if the box is running Linux as its OS the DVR program is written in C++. You never know though. None of them appear to use standard Linux graphical user interface libraries, and none use Swing (which would be obvious for Java).