[vdr] Re: Compiling plugins for vdr 1.3.12

[Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>]

In <1095443992.4076.39.camel@atlantis.netenviron.com>, Torgeir Veimo wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 18:41 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > In <1095440549.4076.32.camel@atlantis.netenviron.com>, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> > 
> > > Softdevice relies of libavcodec from the ffmpeg project for mpeg2
> > > decoding and display. It includes output drivers for Xv, DirectFB and
> > > vidix.
> > 
> > How would I make use of these output options?

[Snip]

> vdr [..other plugins..] -P"softdevice -vo xv:"
> 
> The Xv output starts in a window but can be made fullscreen by a double
> click, if you use metacity (gnome) as window manager. Support for
> fullscreen with other window managers is not yet implemented. 

The window manager I use, OroboROX, does have a hot key for full-screen,
presumably that would work?

> You cannot toggle output on and of (yet). I think it would be a nice
> feature though

Yes. Would I be right in thinking that without it you can't start vdr
with this plugin unless X is currently running? I don't suppose that
really matters though.

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