[linux-dvb] Re: osd for nova ?

[Philip Armstrong <phil@kantaka.co.uk>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:12:55PM +0200, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Philip Armstrong wrote:
> >On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:58:46PM +0200, Georg Weiß wrote:
> >>is there anybody working on a osd-implementation (x or directfb based) 
> >>for using
> >>the wintv nova (with mplayer on client-side) as a linux-based pvr 
> >>solution ?
> >I'm in the 'thinking about it, but failing to find enough copious free
> >time' stage on exactly this project :)
> 
> Don't spend any energy in the OSD. it's deprecated, works only on AV7110 
> based cards and driver support will be dropped one day. Think about 
> porting Enigma or NeutrinoNG from the dbox2 to DirectFB or X11/XRender. 
> The render and DVB classes there are well encapsulated and should be 
> easy to replace.

Given that my card doesn't *have* OSD, if I get round to writing any
code, it'll have to do it's own OSD.

Phil

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