Re: Thoughts on VDR evolution - my 2 cent

[Jan Panteltje <jan@panteltje>]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Thomas Jagoditsch wrote:
> > 
> > On 21 Sep 2000, at 21:52, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> > 
> > > I am working on teletex, that is a teletext on you computer screen.
> > >
> > > Ralph says that the firmware needs modification to get VBI inserted
> > > teletext. If we have that, we need to do nothing special to VDR I
> > > think, cause then you can use the normals sets teletext.
> > 
> > i would prefer teletext on the tv but coming from the pc as overlay
> > like the normal vdr-ui. this would be much more comfortable and
> > lightning fast. is this technically possible ?
> 
> I believe this should be possible, since the OSD can draw bitmaps
> (and the teletext font would probably have to be drawn as such).
> And this definitley woud be a much faster solution since re-insertion
> would have to go through the same bottleneck as normal videotext,
> so any speed gain the PC would be able to make by caching all pages
> might be mostly lost.
> 
> However, even with normal fonts the current OSD is pretty slow.
> I guess it would have to be a lot faster to do a good job with
> teletext (and of course VDR would also benefit from a faster OSD ;-).
>
OK, OK, but the OSD crashes on a regular basis, on my 450 MHz, then I have
to reload the driver.
This seems a driver problem, maybe it could be looked at?
I have tried adding the delay someone suggested, but it still crashes. 
Regards
Jan

> Ralph: any chances the OSD can be made faster?
> 
> Greetings
> Klaus