[linux-dvb] Re: How to use the drivers from 2.5.x kernels?

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

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> 
> Benjamin Forgeau wrote:
> >
> >...
> >       And what is the status of OSD in the future releases?? There is a
> > remark in the help message saying that it may not be supported later.
> 
> That's correct. Don't rely on it - this interface is very tight bound to
> the AV7110 based DVB cards. Use e.g. DirectFB, SDL, XRender or any other
> portable graphics API when you create a DVB video application.

But note that in such cases you will AFAIK need a graphics card that
has a video-out in order to overlay the video with the OSD. The thing I
like about the DVB cards from Siemens, Technotrend and the like is that
they have their _own_ OSD capabilities - limited in color depth though
and with video artefacts in replay mode, but at least I don't have to
hassle with video cards and looping the video signal through them.
You just plug in the DVB card and are ready to go.

Klaus
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