Ralph Metzler wrote:
>
> Klaus Schmidinger writes:
> > > What about deleting the OSDText-ioctl and all the memory (assumingly) used
> > > by character tables or similar things. This function is not used by VDR, and
> > > is not very useful at all (mainly because it's slow and impossible to get an
> > > information where the cursor is after written something to the screen).
> >
> > I don't know the internals of these, but I would assume that the text fonts
> > are not stored in RAM. But in case they are: I'd also like to see them dropped ;-)
> > VDR doesn't need them at all.
> >
>
> The fonts are stored in DRAM. The OSD, MPEG2 decoder and the video
> buffer have to be in SDRAM.
> Most of the 2MB SDRAM is used by the MPEG2 decoder for decoded pictures
> and other data (like buffering B-frames).
> The rest is needed for the video and audio buffer.
> OSD normally goes into the optional extra 2MB SDRAM, which is not
> present on this card.
Is there a card out there that actually _has_ this additional memory?
I wouldn't mind buying such a card, if that would solve this problem once
and for all.
Klaus
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