[linux-dvb] Re: AW: VDR 0.80pre8, current CVS OSD problems

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Roland Praml writes:
 > > > What about 8 colors? This would be enough for what VDR needs.
 > >
 > > You can only have 2, 4, 16 or 256 colors.
 > 
 > What about a 720x288 resolution (only the half lines) and streching the OSD
 > by doubling the lines.
 > I think there won't be any quality loss because the horizontal lines from
 > the
 > fonts are always 2 pixel high.
 > 
 > perhaps this is feasable by Hardware/software


The hardware only supports stretching horizontally by a factor of 2.

Doing vertical doubling in software would not really help, because
it would still need the same amount of memory.


Ralph
 


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