[vdr] Re: warmed up again : DXR3 with VDR

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:41, Ulrich Gierschner wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I try to get a "Networked Video Station" working with a Realmagic alias
> Creative DXR 3 Mpeg2 Card.
> It works quite fine yet,  but what I am missing is the feature and the
> comforts of the vdr osd-menu...
> Does anyone know how to adapt - at least the "Records" and the "Mplayer"
> Item to the DXR3 ?
> I think it should not have to be too much work, because with the DXR3 you
> also have two devices /dev/dxr3_ma and /dev/dxr3_mv ...  you "only" need to
> get the recording stuff out or (later) send any recording "actions" to the
> server.
>
> Did anyone do something like this before ? Or does anyone knows a
> "Filebrowser" which does suppoert the DXR3 OSD ?

afaik supports the DXR3 only DVD type SPU's for OSD. vdr uses only bitmaps for 
it's OSD, so implementing a spuencoder for those bitmaps shouldn't be too 
difficult. I'm not sure about the colorspace available on teh DXR3, but vdr 
does not use so much color anyway.

Andreas