[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Howto upgrade a full-featured dvb-s card to 4 MByte SDRAM

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

tinconn@virgilio.it wrote:
> 
> Hallo all,
> into the web page linked in the first email i read:
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> Full-featured DVB cards are shipped with a single 2 MByte SDRAM chip. Using
> theLinuxDVB driver, OSD memory space is limited to approx. 80 KByte. Therefore,
> it is not possible to have a full-screen, 256 color OSD with VDR.
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> My question is after the update of the card, the space for osd is 80Kb of
> original sdram + 2Mb of new sdram?

No. The OSD is in the upper 2MB. The freed memory in the lower 2MB is given back
to the video decoder buffer.

Besides, a full screen 256 color OSD needs only some 300KB.

Klaus