[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-image-0.0.7 and 0.0.8-pre4

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Onno Kreuzinger wrote:

>Hi ML,
>
>i think it time to tell, some brave man has taken over the image plugin,
>allthough no contact to the original author was possible, i assume it's ok
>to continue this plugin under the old name.
>
>Interpohl <vdr-portal.de> is the project coordinator, he did allready add
>features (zoom and 3x3 preview) and uses the refurbished convert.sh i made
>once for my mp_image/mplayer stuff, Hulk <vdr-portal.de> is also massivley
>working on the code, to find bugs and get rid of ugly code.
>{for now i did not care to ask for the realnames, but i'm aware that i
>should do so}
>
>The stable version is 0.0.7(d) found here:
>http://vdr-image.kreuzinger.biz
>
>Tthe current version is 0.0.8-pre4, including the first mayor cleanup in
>code and scripts, and can be found here:
>http://vdr-image.kreuzinger.biz/beta-pre-releases.html
>
>
>For now the setup is still not so easy but i hope the online readme can
>help, in case you encounter problems feel free to post the on this ML (or if
>you are german on the vdr-portal.de) or to me directly.

Do all image viewers for VDR rely on pregenerating MPEG2 movies from the
JPEG images? With 10000 and more images the amount of space and time
needed for that part is just too expensive. And an EPIA can't really do
that conversion stuff interactively while the user waits for the next
image.

Ideally it should be possible for the plugin to load the JPEG (very fast
operation for images of suitable size) and encode it into something simple
(isn't an i-frame just a JPEG image?) and feed dat data to VDR. Has anyone
done this or is it really possible?

Regards,
    Jan Ekholm

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