Why not go all the way and implement an opengl rendered OSD with vdpau? This would of course require information from vdr in a slightly different form; ie. semantically instead of pixels. I'd suggest trying to get the OSD information as HTML from VDR, then allowing the frontend to render it in any way it deems suitable, with fancy animation, transition effects, icons etc. This might also make it easier to implement text-only OSD, eg for terminal connections.
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Udo Richter udo_richter@gmx.de wrote:
This will hopefully be a true-color OSD with transparency and the ability to scale to the needs of the output device? Like having a HD OSD even on SD playback? And (even if these times are almost history) the ability to switch between 4:3 and 16:9 based on what the output device needs?
Let's all keep our fingers crossed tight for that. You know the saying, if you're gonna do it, might as well do it right! ;)
Klaus, this is great to hear since I know many guys have been interested in this for some time (myself included). It seems the news is traveling fast too, have already seen several inquiries about it elsewhere!
It looks like I'll be loading Photoshop later and getting back to the high color/res yaepghd themes I was working on now. :)
Cheers, Derek
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