Hi All, you all might know the LCDproc-Project. (see http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/index.php3). Im not directly using this one but im using a nice piece of Software called cajun for playing mp3, together with an 40x4-LCD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cajun/ / http://cajun.sourceforge.net/). As i plan to upgrade the box to be able to play video using VDR-recordings made from an dedicated video-server i still have the problem to seamlessly integrade this mp3-stuff. shure, i could run the current cajun-setup _and_ vdr, but.... why not using tv-screen as interface instead of this (rather small) lcd-interface ? But how to incorporate ? My first idea was to look for a seperate-software allowing to output via OSD. Just to have a kind of interface to osd to make outputs from e.g. perl-scripts on it. (cajun has the ability to work with several lcd�s HD-based, seetron-lcd�s, matrix-orbital, X-server etc... so, to have OSD via DVB-S just another module) but - for this it had to have full access to the OSD - and the ressources/possibilites of svdr are rather simple for specific output. so, like this LCDproc-Idea, i think there would be a smarter way: To expand the possibilites of svdr and to let VDR make the output on OSD. This would allow _all_ the things we ever expected from a STB: Alarm on E-Mail, check of specific Parameters -> Inhouse-Temperature, etc and to have the ability easily attaching external scripts like cajun for example: This would allow to write the output on the OSD and thats it ! What should be done ? For the Protocol: Maybe we could be similar to the lcdproc-protocol: http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/netstuff.txt Next would be to extend this protocol to be able to send ir-commands, keystrokes etc to the client. And: tune to "something" to have a black background :-) As there is svdr.c a lot of stuff has already been done. Does anybody has some experience how fast output on the OSD can be ? (For countinous write of counters etc...) What is your opinion about this ? best regards C.Guenther -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
