[vdr] Re: other MPEG Decoder cards?

["Martin Hoffmann" <ma.hoff@bigfoot.com>]

I have a Hollywood+ (same as DXR3), too. And i always thought it has
somekind of OSD function !? Because for dvd playback, which was the initial
intention of the card, subtitles must be displayed. I guess it is capable of
doing somekind of overlay ...
However i'm unsure if such a complex osd that vdr has will be possible to
show !? But there is no other way, unless you decode the mpeg stream, add
your osd to the pictures and encode it to mpeg again. But this way it eats
much too much cpu time :-)

btw: Has the DXR3 output any advantage over the dvbs output ? (except for
timeshifting with a dxr3 and a dvbs) ? As far as i know it can also only
show mpeg1/2 - just as the dvbs card !???

Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Schorer" <ms@plain.de>
To: <    >
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 12:34 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: other MPEG Decoder cards?


hi,

Jean-Claude Repetto wrote:
> I am interested by this project, since I have a DXR3.

me too.

as i stated earlier. biggest problem would be to emulate a osd.

it should be fairly easy to put a layer between vdr and the
demuxed devices of a dxr3 for video/audio.
it would require serious programming to implement a osd layer.

i'm willing to contribute to such a project (as my time permits).

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