[vdr] Re: DEBUG_OSD in 1.3.x

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> 
> Hello Klaus,
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> 
> >There will be an interface that allows a plugin to replace the
> >complete OSD and display things wherever it wants.
> >
> >
> >
> Very nice! I'd like to do a X-Windows OSD which could run outside of a
> viewer application (like xawtv, tvtime, kvdr ...).
> This would give us the possibility to do a  mplayer plugin without
> "-mpgpes", for example.
> What do you think?

Should be possible.

> My current plan was to patch the NewOsd() Method in dvbdevice.c.
> A plugin without a patch is surely better :-)
> So a OSD implementation is going to become another plugin type like
> "player" or "device"?
> Can one add multiple OSD's? (e.g.: additional mini LCD Display)

There can only be one OSD active at a time.
However, it should be possible to temporarily set a different
OSD, which I guess should be sufficient to control a VDR via
a small LCD (I don't think that you need both the small LCD and
the tv screen display at the same time).

Klaus


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