On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:00:54PM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > > > > This actually makes sense, but we can definitely improve upon the > > > > red circle (high error rate) & > > red square (unusable data stream) > > > > that the boxes (in the UK at least) display under error conditions. > > That sounds useful to me. If you want to improve the > signal monitoring UI, have a look at TV::UpdateOSDSignal() > in tv_play.cpp. Currently I'm just reusing the regular OSD > by setting the infoMap strings differently. But you could > certainly add new entries to osd.cpp to support red circles > or squares. They can even be themable if you store them in > PNG files... >
The red circle & square have the user friendliness of a wet slug on Christmas Day. We have all this graphic processing power at our disposal so we should at least display a graphic that can be interpreted as having the same meaning as red circles and squares. Anyone good at coming up with pretty pictures???? 1) No signal / bad signal etc. 2) High Error Rate (unwatchable) Stuart
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