[vdr] Re: GUI: mix of still pics and OSD?

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Olivier Jacques wrote:

>But what I don't get is why is there anything that prevents to base the future
>new VDR GUI on a mix from "still pictures" and OSD.
>We could have a complete "background still-picture" generated on-the-fly using
>a library like ImageMagick. This will allow to create a fullscreen mpeg picture
>from various graphical elements (pictures, text, lines, ...).

Don't the stills have to be encoded as MPEG[12]? It could prove to be too
resource hungry for the lower end of systems where VDR currently runs just
fine. Would probably work fine on a faster machine, but who'd want one of
those next to the TV?

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 The Emperor had all the qualifications for a corpse except, as it were, the
         most vital one.
                                       -- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times


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