[vdr] Re: I have a dream ;-)

[Stefan Schluenss <Stefan.Schluenss@gmx.de>]

Hi guys,

i'm currently doing some investigations on the OSD capability of the DXR3.
It seems to be possible to encode the menu as subpicture. While using some
highlight features of the subpicture format i was able to use more than 4
colors (out of 16).
This seems to be promising. The work is still going on and maybe our dream
comes true.
(Think how cheap a vdr-station could be by using a Nova and a DXR3,
especially when bought at ebay)

Greetings 
Stefan.

> That solution is work in Progress. The coder of the DVD-Addon is working
> on
> it. ("fighting with Problems").
> I also hope that that solution will come and I already tried a pre-alpha
> that worked but the menu needs a quicker computer because its
> realtime-encoded as mpg. on my K6-2 400 it isnt that quick like the DVB-S
> and that is not very fine. Maybe Andreas could speed it up when all works
> ok
> but there are many stones in the way.
> 
> Jan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gernot A. Weber" <gernot@tux-web.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 12:55 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: I have a dream ;-)
> 
> 
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > My "dream" is to create a station able to:
> > > 1 - Make VDR
> > > 2 - Play DVD, VCD, DIVX, blah, blah, and the recorded video from the
> VDR
> > > menu but using the DXR3 TV-OUT (to enable time shifting).
> > >
> > > Any idea about how to realize step 2?
> >
> > You won't be able to play DIVX through the TV-out of you DXR3 card,
> > because your machine is to weak. It has to encode DIVX to a MPEG-2
> stream
> > realtime. The minimum processor for this purpose is, as far as I
> remember,
> > a PIII-800 or Athlon or a Duron 1GHz.
> >
> > Sorry, I can't say anything about how to use DXR3 as primary watching
> > device, but I would be interested in a solution, too.
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> >    Gernot
> >
> > --
> > Gernot A. Weber
> > http://www.tux-web.de
> >
> > Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
> > on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
> >
> >                               Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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