Hi,
I have a vdr box with Via EPIA M10000 motherboard.. I built it
inside an old CD player. There's pictures here for anyone interested:
http://zuik.org/cam/VDR/
Anyway, since the onboard mpeg2 decoder is not currently very well
supported in linux, I'm using softdevice 0.05, with the epia-related fixes
that were suggested by someone on this list..
Some generic notices:
- softdevice works fine directly under viafb
- softdevice works with DirectFB and vesa fb
- softdevice doesn't work with DirectFB and viafb
- softdevice _works_ with DirectFB and the improved viafb from
directfb.org..
It seems that original viafb + DirectFB combination doesn't support
overlay, that's why it doesn't work. :)
Anyway, now i have that part working. It's not very good though, jumps
quite a bit and jams easily if there are bit errors.
However, there's one big annoyance left.. I can't control the thing!
DirectFB opens a new virtual terminal, so keystrokes don't go to vdr's
stdin anymore.. :) Any easy solution here?
There are DirectFB options called '[no-]vt-switch', '[no-]vt-switching'
and '[no-]graphics-vt' you can add to your directfbrc to control this
behaviour. Read the directfbrc manpage for details.