[vdr] Re: fonts

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

> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Hi,

is this limitation because of the hardware design or is it
firmware-related?

CU Ulrich