proposal for a X-frontend for vdr

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

Since vdr has a daemon-mode and a network interface making an 
X-frontend (realizing what i thought before) is much easier: 
 
-just need to implement the SVDRP protocol 
-capture and translate keyboard events (any keys vdr knows about) 
-display and handle the overlay (e.g. mouse-resize) 
 
The last point is the difficult one: 
We need a read/write handle for /dev/video or it has to be implemented 
in the SVDRP - making it much less "simple" ;-) 
 
we would need functions to setting up: 
-colorspace 
-size/resize 
-display-width? 
-overlay-on/off 
-clipping? 
(-grab-frame) 
(-volume handling)
 
Except the correct overlay/resize/clipping/eventhandling it sounds not to 
complicated for me - If someone could explain what needs to be done... 
 
Had asked this before - Can someone please tell me if the OSD is visible at the
overlay?  If not, we need to implement the OSD-equivalent for the X-app again.