[vdr] Re: DXR3 reliable?

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Schultz" <aschultz+vdr@warp10.net>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: DXR3 reliable?


> On Thursday 24 October 2002 15:44, Rene Bartsch wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I know this will upset the DXR3-programmers as they don't like MPlayer,
but
>
> I can't talk for the others working on the dxr3 plugin, but for me it's
not so
> that i don't like mplayer. I use it all the time to play avi's. It only
> looses A/V sync far to often. Last time i checked, mplayer disabled
hardware
> A/V sync on the DVB card when playing through it, but couldn't get the
> syncing right itself either.
>
> Anyway, the main problem i have with mplayer as a vdr backend is that even
> theire "slave" mode does not meet the requirements of a settop-box. Any
and
> all userinteraction has to go through only one channel, the video out.

Patch MPlayer's slave-mode and send the patch to CVS ...

You could add some "\nDisplayBitmap\n"-function to the slave mode, where
Bitmap ist the data of the bitmap ...

>There should be no consol output whatsoever as the user will normaly not be
able to
> read that. MPlayer outputs extensive information though the console, some
of
> which might be interresting to or needed by the user.
>
> BTW: The same problem exists with all the dvd libs, thats the reason you
are
> not getting any meaningfull error reporting there.

What about 1&>2&>/dev/null or wherever you want?



-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to listar@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.