[vdr] Re: XOSD for VDR software-backends

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

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Am Sonntag, 16. November 2003 16:04 schrieben Sie:
> > > By the way, is anyone developing/maintaining the Xine-plugins? If not
> > > I'll change from VDR to NMM.
> >
> > Did anyone ever think about integrating VDR/NMM? Might offer some
> > interesting possiblities, at least network-transparent access should be
> > possible.
> 
> I don't think it would make any sense to merge them. NMM is a DirectX-like,
> but completely network-based multimedia-middleware for linux. It's example
> implementation MMBOX covers nearly all functions of VDR (I think only cutting
> stuff is missing) plus X11 output with OSD. As it is node-based, you can
> implement any kind of input-/output-/reencoding-filter or what ever you want
> and link them by GUI.
> 
> VDR is a very static stand-alone system for thin TV-boxes while NMM provides a
> complete, scalable multimedia architecture.
> 
> So they have to completely different approaches.

IIRC you'll find parts of VDR's core code in there ;-)

Klaus


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