[vdr] Re: other MPEG Decoder cards?

[Markus Schorer <ms@plain.de>]

hi,

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> Are you sure, this will work ? As far as i know some frames between the i
> frames contain difference information. And if we add something to the i
> frame it will "fade" away in the next frames until the next i-frame !?
> It will only work properly for stream with very less movement/changes.
> Anything else will lead to hard readable OSD !?

i would not display b or p frames. the idea is to get a reasonable
cpu-load and see reasonably good what's on the live image.

> But what if we show complete menues (on black), without the live picture in
> the background ? This could be easy done by just displaying i frames !!
> And for the short epg info the 4-color-overlay is enough ?!

using multiple methods (spu and iframes) will result in a lot
more programming ...

bye,

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