Hi,
I have been experimenting with increasing the resolution of the OSD with xineliboutput with at least some kind of success (see http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdosdrx4.png and try to not get bothered about the other "images" you are forced to see, this was the first image sharing site I came across).
Now there are some problems that have come up with the HD OSD. Font rendering and the way fonts and OSD are used by plugins are the main distractions. I bumped in to this Utf8-patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch) which looks promising, but failed to find any more information than what is provided in the german wiki. And the latest adaptation is for VDR 1.4.0. Is the someone out there using this patch and could share his experiences? Maybe someone has adapted it to the current version of VDR...
-Petri
Petri Helin phelin@googlemail.com wrote:
Now there are some problems that have come up with the HD OSD. Font rendering and the way fonts and OSD are used by plugins are the main distractions. I bumped in to this Utf8-patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch) which looks
Has somebody got a pointer to where the actual patch is located, especially v0.1.2 (I'm running vdr-1.4.1)? The link to the homepage at free-x.de seems to be gone, and http://www.free-x.de/vdr/ contains a lot of stuff except this patch (Oleg?). I'd like to give it a try because I need to support a mixed (Russian - German) environment. Having to set the OSD to rus in order to read the EPGs is really not an option. ;-)
Alexander, are you there?
Oleg, thanks for the xmltv files! Works just fine!
Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 15:52 schrieb Harald Milz:
Has somebody got a pointer to where the actual patch is located, especially v0.1.2 (I'm running vdr-1.4.1)? The link to the homepage at free-x.de seems to be gone, and http://www.free-x.de/vdr/ contains a lot of stuff except this patch (Oleg?). I'd like to give it a try because I need to support a mixed (Russian - German) environment. Having to set the OSD to rus in order to read the EPGs is really not an option. ;-)
Now it works... http://www.free-x.de/utf8/
Alexander, are you there?
Oleg, thanks for the xmltv files! Works just fine!
I'm glad to hear this
Hello to all UTF-8 user and naturally to others 8 and 7bit user also. ;-)
Please look at http://www.free-x.de/utf8/
The last version of utf8 patch is for vdr 1.4.3 the next version for 1.4.4 will be soon there.
P.S. Would be also interesting to know whether someone Antialiasing uses, otherwise I remove AA code from UTF8 Patch. (new softdevice plugin does it also very well)
Harald Milz schrieb:
Petri Helin phelin@googlemail.com wrote:
Now there are some problems that have come up with the HD OSD. Font rendering and the way fonts and OSD are used by plugins are the main distractions. I bumped in to this Utf8-patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch) which looks
Has somebody got a pointer to where the actual patch is located, especially v0.1.2 (I'm running vdr-1.4.1)? The link to the homepage at free-x.de seems to be gone, and http://www.free-x.de/vdr/ contains a lot of stuff except this patch (Oleg?). I'd like to give it a try because I need to support a mixed (Russian - German) environment. Having to set the OSD to rus in order to read the EPGs is really not an option. ;-)
Alexander, are you there?
Oleg, thanks for the xmltv files! Works just fine!
Hallo Alexander,
Please look at http://www.free-x.de/utf8/
The last version of utf8 patch is for vdr 1.4.3 the next version for 1.4.4 will be soon there.
I'm interested in the patch, given that all my other Linux computers use utf8. However, I'd prefer to use the built-in bitmap fonts of vdr, for two reasons:
For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' (TV output of Matrox G450).
Do you have any thoughts on this? How hard would it be to combine all VDR font bitmaps to one that would use Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane? Presumably, it would have to be a sparse data structure, since most code points of the BMP are not present in the bitmap fonts nor used by DVB-T senders.
Marko
PS: I saw one Russian (or Bulgarian or some Cyrillic) and one German comment being added by vdr-1.4.3-utf8-0.1.3-rc1.diff.gz. Maybe it would be better to translate them into English.
Hi Marko,
built-in bitmap Fonts in vdr are not uniform. Those must be first exchanged.
UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable.
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' (TV output of Matrox G450).
try out simply, i use DXR3 and meine frends FF cards.
Do you have any thoughts on this? How hard would it be to combine all VDR font bitmaps to one that would use Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane? Presumably, it would have to be a sparse data structure, since most code points of the BMP are not present in the bitmap fonts nor used by DVB-T senders.
Marko
PS: I saw one Russian (or Bulgarian or some Cyrillic) and one German comment being added by vdr-1.4.3-utf8-0.1.3-rc1.diff.gz. Maybe it would be better to translate them into English.
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Alexander Riedel alexander-riedel@t-online.de wrote:
UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable.
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' (TV output of Matrox G450).
I am using the 1.4.0-2 patch against vdr-1.4.1 and softdevice-0.3.1 with a Matrox G550 at 1280x720p, albeit with DVI out. Works just fine with German OSD and German/Russian EPG. The machine is an Athlon XP-M 2400+ @ 1800MHz, and it uses 25-30 % CPU depending on what it does, with or without Freetype. And IMHO the Arial font looks better on the OSD than the original VDR font, but that's a matter of taste I guess. You can always replace it by another TTF if you like.
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:36:58PM +0100, Alexander Riedel wrote:
Hi Marko,
built-in bitmap Fonts in vdr are not uniform. Those must be first exchanged.
UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable.
I see. I gave the patch a try. After all, the only added dependence on my system seems to be libfreetype6{,-dev}.
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' (TV output of Matrox G450).
try out simply, i use DXR3 and meine frends FF cards.
Unfortunately, it caused a segmentation fault or something strange in iconv_close() in CharSetConv(), called from ConvertPhrases(). When I started it in gdb or quickly attached gdb during the initialization, there was no crash, but a hang or a signal (SIGTERM if I remember correctly), varying from time to time. When I started vdr standalone as "vdr -l1", it crashed in SIGSEGV. Valgrind didn't reveal anything either; it just appeared hung. The only error in the logs related to your patch was this one:
"ERROR: FreeType: an error occurred during FT_Render_Glyph"
I see that the iconv functions are part of GNU libc. I'm using version 2.3.6. The compiler version is "gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)".
The crash occurred on both vdr 1.4.2 and 1.4.3. On 1.4.2, there was one trivial reject: the disabling of the UTF-8 check. On 1.4.3, the patch applied cleanly. The only other patches are the patch of vdr-subtitles-0.3.11 (http://www.virtanen.org/vdr/subtitles/) and this patch of mine:
http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-1.4.0-suspend-0.4.3.patch....
I run vdr in LANG=fi_FI, charset iso-8859-1 ("locale" does not say it, but it definitely is 8859-1 or 8859-15).
Marko
Hi Marko,
last debian or freetype has problems with utf8 patch. I know. :-/ Version for 1.4.4 will fix it. You can try older freetype versions or wait.
Und also link to German wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:36:58PM +0100, Alexander Riedel wrote:
Hi Marko,
built-in bitmap Fonts in vdr are not uniform. Those must be first exchanged.
UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable.
I see. I gave the patch a try. After all, the only added dependence on my system seems to be libfreetype6{,-dev}.
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' (TV output of Matrox G450).
try out simply, i use DXR3 and meine frends FF cards.
Unfortunately, it caused a segmentation fault or something strange in iconv_close() in CharSetConv(), called from ConvertPhrases(). When I started it in gdb or quickly attached gdb during the initialization, there was no crash, but a hang or a signal (SIGTERM if I remember correctly), varying from time to time. When I started vdr standalone as "vdr -l1", it crashed in SIGSEGV. Valgrind didn't reveal anything either; it just appeared hung. The only error in the logs related to your patch was this one:
"ERROR: FreeType: an error occurred during FT_Render_Glyph"
I see that the iconv functions are part of GNU libc. I'm using version 2.3.6. The compiler version is "gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)".
The crash occurred on both vdr 1.4.2 and 1.4.3. On 1.4.2, there was one trivial reject: the disabling of the UTF-8 check. On 1.4.3, the patch applied cleanly. The only other patches are the patch of vdr-subtitles-0.3.11 (http://www.virtanen.org/vdr/subtitles/) and this patch of mine:
http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-1.4.0-suspend-0.4.3.patch....
I run vdr in LANG=fi_FI, charset iso-8859-1 ("locale" does not say it, but it definitely is 8859-1 or 8859-15).
Marko
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:08:09AM +0100, Alexander Riedel wrote:
Hi Marko,
last debian or freetype has problems with utf8 patch. I know. :-/ Version for 1.4.4 will fix it. You can try older freetype versions or wait.
Und also link to German wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch
Danke, ich werde warten.
Marko
Hi Alexander,
Any progress on utf8 patch for 1.4.4?
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Vladimir
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 01:08 +0100, Alexander Riedel wrote:
Hi Marko,
last debian or freetype has problems with utf8 patch. I know. :-/ Version for 1.4.4 will fix it. You can try older freetype versions or wait.
Und also link to German wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch
Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 23:18 schrieb Alexander Riedel:
The last version of utf8 patch is for vdr 1.4.3 the next version for 1.4.4 will be soon there.
P.S. Would be also interesting to know whether someone Antialiasing uses, otherwise I remove AA code from UTF8 Patch. (new softdevice plugin does it also very well)
If it's not too much effort for you pls leave it in. Unfortunately I didn't have time to test it out, but it's on my list ;)
Not everyone is using softdevice, in fact i think it's the minority.
Tim
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