Text2skin-plugin

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	==Installation==		==Installation==
		+	To install ImageMagick
		+	<pre>
		+	cd $SOURCEDIR
		+	tar jxvf ImageMagick-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
		+	cd ImageMagick-<VERSION>
		+	./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
		+	--without-perl \
		+	--without-dps \
		+	--without-fpx \
		+	--without-gslib \
		+	--without-jbig \
		+	--without-jp2 \
		+	--without-lcms \
		+	--without-tiff \
		+	--without-xml \
		+	--without-x
		+	make
		+	make install
		+	ldconfig
		+	</pre>
		+
	See [[plugin installation]]		See [[plugin installation]]
		+
		+	===Patches===
		+	For DVB cards which are extended to 4MB memory '''$SOURCEDIR/VDR/dvbosd.c''' has to be altered to use the advanced [[OSD]] feature (more colors, bigger windows)
		+	<pre>
		+	#define MAXOSDMEMORY 1000000
		+	</pre>
		+	and recompile VDR.
		+
		+	==Configuration==
		+	The skins are placed in the plugins configuration directiory
		+	<pre>
		+	cd /etc/vdr/plugins
		+	mkdir text2skin
		+	cd text2skin
		+	cp /path/to/skin-package.tgz ./
		+	tar xvzf skin-package.tgz
		+	</pre>
	==Problems==		==Problems==

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Revision as of 22:40, 14 November 2004

Contents 1 Description 2 Hardware requirements 3 Software requirements 4 Installation 4.1 Patches 5 Configuration 6 Problems 7 Links

Description

The text2skin plugin is designed to load and interpret a set of files describing the layout of the On Screen Display and to make this "Skin" available to VDR via Setup -> OSD in the main menu. Of course it is possible to load more than one text-based skin this way and to choose between them while running VDR. All skins may be themeable (you can create your own color-theme) and translateable as the author of the skin wishes.

Hardware requirements

There are two versions of skins for the text2skin plugin

• "90kb" for standard OSD
• "1mb" for OSD of modded full featured cards

If a skin with two many colors for the OSD memory is used, one can end up in a non-readable or even not displayed OSD.

Software requirements

• nothing : only XPM images with no transparency/alpha channel
• ImageMagick : many different image formats (slower than imlib2)
• Imlib2 : many different image formats (see problems)

Both can be used together, but it's of no use.

Installation

To install ImageMagick

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar jxvf ImageMagick-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
cd ImageMagick-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
            --without-perl \
            --without-dps \
            --without-fpx \
            --without-gslib \
            --without-jbig \
            --without-jp2 \
            --without-lcms \
            --without-tiff \
            --without-xml \
            --without-x
make
make install
ldconfig

See plugin installation

Patches

For DVB cards which are extended to 4MB memory $SOURCEDIR/VDR/dvbosd.c has to be altered to use the advanced OSD feature (more colors, bigger windows)

#define MAXOSDMEMORY 1000000

and recompile VDR.

Configuration

The skins are placed in the plugins configuration directiory

cd /etc/vdr/plugins
mkdir text2skin
cd text2skin
cp /path/to/skin-package.tgz ./
tar xvzf skin-package.tgz

Problems

• Use of the imlib2 library together with the graphtft-plugin can lead to crashes.

Links

[1]	http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=text2skin	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html	Imlib2 Homepage
[3]	http://www.imagemagick.org	imagemagick Homepage
[4]	http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins	Skins for the text2skin plugin