[linux-dvb] Re: I found a way to display still .jpg and .ppm s on the TV

[Christian Forster <boronk@boronk.de>]

On Friday 23 March 2001 02:15, you wrote:
> Jan Panteltje writes:
>  > Maybe all of you already figured this out.
>  > the way I am doing it is a bit complicated:
>  >
>  > I have: xx.jpg
>  > Then I resize it with 'display' (part of imagemagick) to 352x288
>  > Nwxt convert it to .ppm with djpeg -pnm xx.jpg >frame.1.ppm
>  >
>  > Make a special parameter file for mpeg_encode (for just frame.1.ppm)
>  > mpeg_encode single-frame.param
>  > This results in (for example) movie.mpg (VERY short)
>  >
>  > Then I wrote a very small C program that sends the movie.mpg
>  > REPEATEDLY to /dev/video
>  >  (without closing that device)
>
> Are you aware that there is a call in the DVB API where you can send
> an I-frame to be displayed as a still picture?
>

Could someone evtl implement that in vdr....
A nice Photobook viewer for my TV
*g*

Christian


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