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

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Fre, 2002-06-07 um 01.10 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> 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

Alternatively MPlayer's MPsub for subtitles in text-format could be
used, but this would limit to MPlayer only.
(We should remind the poor Windoze-users ... ;o) )

> 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
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