[vdr] Re: VDR-Plugin-Suggestion: MPlayer

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Don, 2002-06-06 um 19.16 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> Am Don, 2002-05-23 um 18.59 schrieb Stefan Huelswitt:
> > On 23 May 2002 Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > So why not make complete MPlayer to a VDR-Plugin? 
> > 
> > I the plugin API is finished and if there is public demand I
> > surely will create a MPlayer plugin based on the MPlayer patch.
> > But I don't think it's a good idea to make the complete MPLayer a
> > plugin. So I won't spent time for this.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Stefan Huelswitt
> > huels@iname.com  | http://home.pages.de/~nathan
> > 
> 
> I got a simplier idea for creating a low-budget-card VDR-Box by using
> MPlayer as output-backend.
> 
> Can you add functions to your MPlayer-patch which do not send the
> A/V-stream to the DVB-driver but to stdin of MPlayer (the MPlayer-patch
> could start a MPlayer instance when starting VDR).
> 
> In setup.conf could be a option (e.g.)
> 
> 'MPlayerOut = -vo xv -ao oss -fs -npp ci ...' for VGA/OSS-out, or
> 
> 'MPlayerOut = -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes ...' for DVB, DXR2/3, H+ -out.
> 
> 
> Mplayer patch would start MPlayer with 'mplayer $MPlayerOut -slave'
> 
> By using '-slave' you could send commands such as Volume from VDR to
> MPlayer embedded in the A/V-stream with '\n'.
> 
> This is relatively easy, but the problem is the OSD. So I got the idea
> to encode the OSD to subtitle and mux it into the MPEG-stream before
> passing to MPlayer-stdin.

DVD-subtitles are rle-compressed 4-color (using yuv palette) bitmaps

> 
> In that way we could use all output-devices of MPlayer (DVB, DXR2/3, H+,
> VGA ...) with cheap WinTV Novas.
> 
> I think many people with low budget, VDR-servers or beamers would be
> happy then.
> 
> Rene
> 
>