[vdr] Re: AW: Re: softdevice-0.0.4 plugin with Xv output method

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

oh-oh, I should type slower, so here again...

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Stephan Skrodzki wrote:
>
> > > > @Holger: would a full screen, 256 color OSD be sufficient for
> > > > MHP, or does it requite even more?
> > >
> > > IIRC you need a full-color display. A more serious problem is
> > > that the MHP spec requires at least an OSD, a video and a
> > > stillpicture layer, maybe even multiple still layers (maybe these
> > > could get faked using the window stack). But that's just like I
> > > remind things, if anybody here has the specs handy please check
> > > and report whether my memory is true...
> >
> >
> > The three layers are background, video and graphics. Colour model
> > is stated to be "logical truecolor"... as we have to keep in mind,
> > that multiple jpegs are allowed and even mpeg2 video driplets (but
> > this I don't remember very exactly) , 256 colors are not suffisant.
maybe you could try some sophisticated dithering schemes, but it will
probably look ugly and I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort. And
then there is another problem: some MHP applets expect single-buffered
displays, so you need to copy the OSD surface continously for them...

Holger



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