Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Hi Klaus, > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > > If the card doesn't have OSD capabilities, there's of course no point in > > having OSD functions in the driver for such a card. However, the DVB-S card > > I'm using does have OSD capabilities and A/V out - and I want to be able to > > use these. > > Well, it's there and you can use it. But you can't expect much > portability and flexibility. > > >>What do you think about an DirectFB user interface for VDR? > > > > That would mean I need an extra graphics card to display the OSD, right? > > Plus I would have to route the video through the graphics card and connect > > the tv to the graphics card. Why should I want to do that if my DVB card > > already has an A/V out plus OSD? > > Because it's portable, you can use more colors, and you can run your > programs on any card? The DirectFB MPEG2 videoprovider can even do > software MPEG decoding when necessairy. And there is a DirectFB port for > the dbox2 too, so you can use a silent 'real' STB in your living room > and let the Harddisks mounted via network somewhere where the noise does > not matters. > > > The OSD classes in VDR should be encapsulated enough to allow somebody who > > really wants to do this to implement an alternative OSD. However, you shouldn't > > drop OSD support for those DVB cards that actually have OSD capabilites. > > We won't do this too soon, but the current AV7110 based PCI cards might > stay the only cards ever which implemented this OSD API.
Well, if somebody wants a DirectFB version of VDR, he/she can implement a derived cDevice class and do everything necessary in there. Should work with the current VDR developer version - Andreas Schultz for example has done this for the DXR3 cards (hope I got the card name right). Klaus -- _______________________________________________________________ Klaus Schmidinger Phone: +49-8635-6989-10 CadSoft Computer GmbH Fax: +49-8635-6989-40 Hofmark 2 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany URL: www.cadsoft.de _______________________________________________________________ -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
