[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: DXR3 plugin vdr-dxr3-0.1.2

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

Hi again,

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 19:37, Richard Walker wrote:
> In message <200212241847.54765.dxr3_osd@schluenss.de>
>           Stefan Schluenss <dxr3_osd@schluenss.de> wrote:
>
> Stefan,
>
> Merry Christmas to you too - and thankyou for replying so quickly!
>
> [ OSD h-scale ]
>
> > We are trying to determine the video resolution  out of the MPEG data.
>
> I see.  Very hi-tech!  :-)
Hi-tech ?! No, and it seems to be a litte bit buggy if we determine the wrong 
video resolution for your UK DVB-T channels.
>
> > Unfortunately some stations are sending some garbage and therefore we
> > only check for a horizontal resolution of 720. Otherwise the OSD will be
> > downscaled to a width of 480. I guess those stations are sending with 702
> > (which we have forgotten) and this  results in downscaling.
> >
> > You could try to patch line 388 of spuenc.c from
> > 	if (hsize != 720)
> > to
> > 	if ((hsize != 720) || (hsize != 702))
>
> I've made the change, done 'make plugins', copied the new library over, and
> re-started VDR.  Result?  The OSD is now too small (horizontally) on *all*
> channels (previously it was OK on BBC 1, but too small on the rest).
>
> I know this is nasty, but... the following change makes it work OK for me:
>
>   if (0)
>
> :-)
>
> i.e. don't ever bother with the scaling stuff.  It seems to be OK for the
> UK DVB-T channels.
You lucky guy. Of course you get the best OSD qualitiy if rescaling isn't 
needed at all (i hate this rescaling stuff and i will do some experiments in 
the future whether the card could do that for us).

Stefan



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