[vdr] Re: [linux-dvb] Re: ANNOUNCE: Softdevice plugin. Use /dev/fbfor output

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> Roland Praml schrieb:
>>
>> I wrote a small plugin to use the framebuffer as output device.
>> the whole MPEG2 decoding is done in software. So you don't
>> need a full featured card to use VDR.
>>
>> You need:
>> A VDR of course.
>> A strong CPU (i think 800 MHz+)
>
> Really 800 MHz+ ? DVDs can be played with a Celeron500 (without
> post-processing), so you should tune your plugin a little bit.
>
> Rene

When directly rendering to the framebuffer you can't use the graphics 
card for scaling and YUV conversion, this wastes a significant amount of 
time. Use DirectFB, SDL, XV, XRender, OpenGL or any other accelerating 
graphics library of your choice.

SDL is probably the most portable approach right now, DirectFB provides 
you the fanciest API designed for STB OSD displays but is native only on 
the Linux Framebuffer, for all other OSs and Windowing systems you need 
to install the SDL-DirectFB driver. Not too hard.

Holger



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