Dave Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like some
> resolution to this: either overlay video or synchronized A/V capture,
> processing, and playback. I think/hope the timeshift feature will do this
> for me.

Hm. I'm sure the time-shift feature will be too processor expensive for me.
That's why I just switched from mythtv to freevo; mythtv always has a buffer for
time-shifting, and hence requires a fast machine.

I'm working on an overlay alternative for freevo. I'm guessing that there are
others out there who would consider dedicating an older computer to be a
dedicated freevo-machine, but not wanting to buy a new high peformance machine
for the job. 

The overlay TV stuff has two parts: one is a Python class which does the v4l
ioctls (written in C), and the other is a Python class which can be an
alternative to src/tv/mplayer.py, and fills the freevo window with blue (the
chromakey), onto which the TV image is overlaid.

I have the basics working, but two issues:

* I want to tell v4l where on the screen the overlay (freevo) window is. Can I
get this information from pygame? Once I dedicate the machine to the TV, I don't
think this will be a problem, because the freevo stuff will fill the screen. But
it would be nice to do now all the same.

* I havn't yet understood how the system handles input events. Is there
documentation on this anywhere? What do I have to do in my mplayer.py replacement?

> Also, just to be clear: you have the Matrox _Marvel_ G400? with TV-in and
> -out on the same card. Is that correct?

Yes.

> for an alternative to xawtv, look at tvtime.sourceforge.net

Does tvtime support overlay mode? The features look so fancy that I would think
that it processes the image data just like mplayer.

Thanks for your attention!



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