Re: Problem with OSD on Siemens card

[Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at>]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Matjaz Thaler wrote:
> > 
> > > > http://www2.arnes.si/~mthale1/dvd.pva
> > 
> > This file is converted from .vob, you can send it to /dev/video.
> > If I run programs in this order, I get noisy OSD:
> > 
> > $ cat dvd.pva > /dev/video
> > $ DVB/apps/osdtest
> > 
> > > Now the question is, whether the problem is in the Linux driver, or
> > > in the firmware itself. BTW: which OS are you using? If it is Windows,
> > > then one might assume that the firmware is the culprit.
> > 
> > I'm using Linux, driver version 0.04.
> 
> This file appears to be a good test case!
> 
> I tried several times the sequence of reloading the driver,
> sending your file to /dev/video and then opening the OSD. In all
> cases the OSD was immediately "noise". Reloading the driver
> again and opening the OSD without sending the file first
> always resulted in an undisturbed OSD.
> 
> So apparently the problem is caused by something in the video
> data. Hopefully somebody who is involved in the driver/firmware
> development can use this to iron out this bug :-)

did anyone try oms for video playback - the AVP code there is 
implemented a little bit different from the mpeg2mpeg code.

	++dent

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Thomas Mirlacher	Student of ComputerScience, University of Salzburg
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