[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 4:22 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: AW: Idea about using vdr without hardware mpeg2 decoder


> On Thursday 19 September 2002 15:40, you wrote:
> > 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 ...
>
> If I've got the OSD on console, why not just pipe the full stream into
> MPlayer?
>

That was one of my suggestions I already made half a year ago.
But the problem would be to overlay the console OSD to the
tty where MPlayer is running. As you can read in
"[vdr] Re: DEBUG_OSD-question - especially @Klaus Schmidinger"
there are some elements missing like progress bar.

So the best way would be to use Andreas Schulze's OSD2SUB
renderer and mux the OSD as subtitle into the A/V-stream ...

Rene