[vdr] Re: fonts

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> 
> Hi. Later when I'll come back home I'll hopefully post some new
> regarding fonts of OSD display.
> 
> A question, to Klaus or to everyone very into vdr osd system: the osd is
> now presented with 1 bit depth: foreground or background (transparent).

Actually the large center part of the OSD has 2 bpp.

> A great thing to enhance readability would be to render characters with
> variuos level of color, or even with sub-pixel rendering. What are the
> real limitations of the OSD? could it be possible to render a 2, 4 bit
> depth OSD image?

OSD memory is ************EXTREMELY************** limited.
You won't be able to use a decent sized OSD with even 4bpp.

Klaus
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