[vdr] Re: AW: Idea about using vdr without hardware mpeg2 decoder

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Philippi" <lists@torangan.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: AW: Idea about using vdr without hardware mpeg2 decoder


> On Thursday 19 September 2002 13:45, you wrote:
> > (Why not using keyboard directly on a tty?) You also don't have any
>
> Didn't know that this would work. Makes life easier since I didn't yet
manage
> to run kvdr since my RedHat 7.3 has KDE 2 libs but no headers (and both
for
> KDE 1 - I guess I'll use Debian soon) and the binary needs some .so I only
> have as .a.
>

Just compile VDR with REMOTE=KBD and copy keys.conf
(defines the keys to be used for VDR) to the configuration-directory of VDR.

> > feedback of VDR without the OSD. No way to handle things like cutting
>
> I don't need cutting. The only things I'd like to have would be watching
> through MPlayer without recording so that I've got a chance to display it
on
> TV and some way to program vdr to record later - I don't mind if I have to
> create the timestamps by hand instead of using the OSD.
>
> > I suggest to decode the MPEG/AC3 with the libavcodec-library from
ffmpeg,
> > send the audio to OSS/ALSA, render the OSD (maybe you can even use the
> > bitmaps created by VDR), overlay the OSD to the video and copy it into
the
> > framebuffer of the graphic-card.
>
> I'd consider doing this but unfortunately I've never done graphic
programming
> and I don't know where to learn more about this. If someone would point me
> to documentation or even better offer to explain the basics to me I'd try
to
> learn this.
>

I just got another idea. VDR has a compile-option DEBUG_OSD=1, which
displays the OSD on stdout (e.g. on the tty VDR has been started from).
When decoding A/V-stream with libavcodec we could display the video
on a second tty for the beginning and search for a overlay-solution on one
tty later ...

Rene