[vdr] Re: I have a dream ;-)

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Monday 22 July 2002 14:28, Stefan Schluenss wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> i'm currently doing some investigations on the OSD capability of the DXR3.
> It seems to be possible to encode the menu as subpicture. While using some
> highlight features of the subpicture format i was able to use more than 4
> colors (out of 16).

This sounds like you got the DXR3 to display your subtitles? I tried it and it 
refused to display mine. I actualy have some code to convert vdr's cBitmap's 
into SPU's (without the highlight).

Also, it appears that there can only be one active highlight area, that 
effectivly would limit us to 8 out of 16 colors. Also, one would most 
certainly wish to use the highlight area for the cursor bar leaving you with 
only 4 colors for the main menue, not enough colors for the colored key area 
at the bottom of the menue area.

> This seems to be promising. The work is still going on and maybe our dream
> comes true.

playback i have already working and transfer mode should be trivial.

> (Think how cheap a vdr-station could be by using a Nova and a DXR3,
> especially when bought at ebay)

One more thing, a very low end system could eventualy run into problems, as 
the dxr3 apparently can only play PCM audio and the DVB MPEG2 audio stream 
therefore needs be decoded by the main CPU.

Have fun

   Andreas

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