[vdr] Re: OSD of MD usable for VDR ? ONLY THE OSD :-)

[a.share@t-online.de (Andreas Share)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Schultz" <rr@cubeoffice.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:46 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: OSD of MD usable for VDR ? ONLY THE OSD :-)


> ug@teuto.de wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2002 12:49 you wrote the following :
> >
> >>>>Is it possible to use the OSD of MD for vdr ? Ok, it's a bit
> >>>>slower but much
> >>>>nicer to look at, too.
> >>>>
> >>>MD?? MiniDisc??
> >>>
> >>I assume he talks about  MultiDec, the windows software for analog TV
and
> >>DVB.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, exactly. But I did not want to mention this name any more because
> > everybody thinks that it is only for viewing forbidden tv stations.
>
> MultiDec itself does the same as the DVB driver plus VDR, but under
> Windows. The problem starts when you use the external DLL's for logging
> and decoding.
>
> > It is a - for windows - quite good "watching tv"-Tool. Much (!!) better
than
> > the original Hauppauge Software and much cheaper than DVBLive (it is
GPL, I
> > think, if not, it's freeware :-)
> >
> >
> >>Sourcecode is available AFAIK.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I got it here, but I did not parse it, yet.
>
> I had a quick look at it and the OSD windows it opens are quite big. I
> doubt that they would work with newer firmware versions.
> I don't want to install windows on my box just to see what the OSD in MD
> looks like, could you provide some screenshots?
>
> Andreas
>

Hi,

Multidec uses a firmware from december or older. With newer versions the
"Gooddies" runīs never more;)