Re: [vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?
Carsten Koch wrote: Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now? I don't have a FF card but using a dxr3 in my 2nd vdr box so I have some experience about HW decoded vdr -- but If you have a flat panel TV with HDMI/DVI input, I believe all the softdevices around will provide a high quality scaled and deinterlaced progressive output via graphics card DVI output. Sound cards with SPDIF or optical Toslink will give high quality audio if you have an AV receiver. I'm using myself xinelibout in daemon mode 24/7 and use vdr-sxfe (fired from Matchbox desktop that is controlled by Lirc) to connect to VDR to provide 50Hz 720p full-screen video. MPEG Decoding (Xv) is suspended by a plugin after a timeout. Cheers, Seppo ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] Dropping pixel font in VDR 1.5?
I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely drop all the pixel font stuff. Just to make sure there won't be somebody who absolutely needs the pixel fonts, please let me know if this is ok. Since probably most of you will be running VDR with UTF-8 anyway (once it is supported, which will be very soon), my guess would be that the pixel fonts are really obsolete. Klaus ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Dropping pixel font in VDR 1.5?
On 05/27/07 19:11, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 27 May 2007, at 17:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely drop all the pixel font stuff. Have you given some thought to how to do OSD with HDTV? I guess one could either have a few supported resolutions, 480P, 720P and 1080P, or just go completely resolution independent. This has nothing to do with the question of dropping the pixel fonts. And since there is no actual DVB card available, yet, that could display any OSD on HDTV (let a lone HDTV at all), I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Klaus ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Dropping pixel font in VDR 1.5?
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 05/27/07 19:11, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 27 May 2007, at 17:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely drop all the pixel font stuff. Have you given some thought to how to do OSD with HDTV? I guess one could either have a few supported resolutions, 480P, 720P and 1080P, or just go completely resolution independent. I'd support resolution independency, as I run VDR xineliboutput at the native resolution of my LCD TV, i.e. 1366x768. This has nothing to do with the question of dropping the pixel fonts. And since there is no actual DVB card available, yet, that could display any OSD on HDTV (let a lone HDTV at all), I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Unfortunately I'm not too confident that there will be any new DVB cards with built-in decoders with HDTV output interface with OSD. It seems to me like in the future HDTV picture would be output via DVI/HDMI of graphics adapter (or integrated one). I think some DVB cards with hardware HDTV decoding support could appear, though. -- Anssi Hannula ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
