[vdr] Re: cDevice plugin API

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Hamill" <gdh@acentral.co.uk>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:49 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: cDevice plugin API


> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:34:09PM +0100, Stefan Schluenss wrote:
>
> > > I was actually not aware of the fact that the OSDwas rendered by the
> > > plugin. I thought the DXR3 card had it's own OSD functionality;)
>
> > The OSD isn't rendered by the plugin ! The OSD is converted to
> > subpicture commands which will be interpreted and rendered by the DXR3
> > card. I'm not sure whether an RTP-capable media-player would
> > understand such a subpicture data stream (although this is the same
> > data format used on dvds for subtiteling).
>
> May I insert my two cents here?
>
> I've been toying with VideoLAN (www.videolan.org) a lot recently,
> which provides a rich set of applications for streaming (RTP unicast and
> multicast) and receiving these streams using X11/GNOME/KDE clients.
> There's also a very nice Win32 client using DirectX and hardware
> overlay..
>
> Why am I writing this? One of the standard plugins for the VideoLAN
> Client is "spudec" advertised as 'DVD subtitle decoder' - doesn't this
> seem like a superb way to allow both Windows and Linux platforms to act
> as a 'VDR client' complete with OSD, without the need for complicated
> commandline mplayer rtp:// options or installing that insane Elecard
> MPEG-demux for Windows?
>

As the DXR3-plugin uses dvd-subpicture, this would be a nice solution. But
running with Mplayer isn't complicated. You only have to activate
subtiteling ...

Rene



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