On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:48:04 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:05, Dan Christensen wrote: > > Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The guide I get while watching Live TV is an overlay on the TV show > > > currently being watched. Is there a different guide theme or > > > whatever, > > > that pops live TV up in the corner with the guide on a solid > > > background > > > like the picture Neil posted? > > > > I'm wondering the same thing. I use the TV-out on my PVR-350, and I > > can the guide overlaying fullscreen TV, which makes it very hard to > > read. (As a workaround, I've adjusted the alpha to max to block out > > the TV show.) I'm going to guess that you are using a PVR-350 too. > > Am I right? Maybe myth does the guide this way when using the > > PVR-350, since full screen video uses no cpu while a small image > > has to be decoded in software? > > > > I'd prefer to use up a bit of cpu and get a small image in the corner. > > I think this is a known issue when using the PVR-350 for output: > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/84356
I think it's actually a feature more than an issue, using the PVR-350's hardware decoding and ivtv just has an overlay framebuffer and transparency setting. In other words, if you tried to pop back into the guide with the small picture, the video would be jerky because you wouldn't be using the hardware decoding, so I think myth just uses the different guide setup. I'd imagine myth's source code would reveal the truth... I may be wrong, but it's my experience that using a PVR-350's out is what presents you with the different guide.
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