[vdr] Re: font

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Mike Pieper wrote:
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:08 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: font
> 
> 
> On Friday 05 April 2002 19:05, you wrote:
> > You forget one (IMHO very important) thing: output quality. 
> There may
> > be lots of graphic-cards with TV-Out, but I've seen none that comes
> > even close to the TV-Out-quality of the DVB-S, at  least not under
> > those cheap ones you talk about.
> I agree to you.
> 
> Only two problems remain: 1.) The size of the picture. I was 
> not able to 
> generate the overscan areas. With a correctly set up TV-set 
> this should be no 
> problem, though. 2.) Synchronisation: The DVB-out is 
> synchronized with the 
> MPEG decoder or perhaps free running and the decoder is 
> synchronized against 
> the TV-out. This is a dedicated process, running on in the 
> firmware of the 
> card. To control a graphics card in that way is difficult.

Another downside of using the tv-out will be the loss of the Videotext
capability, AFAIK there is no Tv-out on any graphics card that can send
VT information in the overscan aerea.

Cu Ulrich