[vdr] Re: font

[Usenet-372204@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

Carsten.Koch@icem.de(Carsten Koch)  05.04.02 15:48

Once upon a time Carsten Koch shaped the electrons to say...

>Carsten Koch wrote:
>...
>> Except for the flicker problem, the OSD has no limitations.

>I take that back.
>What I meant was: there are no font size limitations imposed
>by the OSD, as vdr generates the characters itself and the
>OSD does not even know it displays text.

>As far as the OSD limitations go, there are many, including
>the fact that OSD requests sometimes cause the firmware to
>crash. At least on my system, this happens frequently:

>Apr  2 00:52:56 vdr kernel: dvb0: ARM crashed!
>Apr  2 02:00:02 vdr kernel: dvb0: ARM crashed!
>Apr  4 21:39:25 vdr kernel: dvb0: ARM crashed!


>From what we know today, using the card's OSD was really a
>bad idea. 

?? I thought that the original OSD was so terrible bad/limited,
that VDR is "stamping" the OSD in the mpg-data stream?



>I guess that is the reason why new Hauppauge cards
>no longer have an OSD. 

Did Hauppauge's W* software ever use the OSD?
All i have see uses only the pc screen.


>Sooner or later it will no longer be
>possible to buy a card that supports the OSD, so it will no
>longer be possible to build a VDR system from new components.

At least: The cards becomes more and more crippled.


BTW: Siemens pc-werksverkauf.de currently has 137 DVB-s on stock.


Rainer