[vdr] Re: Re : Bitmap-format of OSD?

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Fre, 2002-07-19 um 20.36 schrieb Andreas Schultz:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 20:28, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > Am Mon, 2002-06-10 um 09.10 schrieb Andreas Schultz:
> > > On Sunday 09 June 2002 23:53, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > > > As I don't have the abilities to do that myself, I'm looking for
> > > > someone who creates a patch for VDR to encode it's OSD to SPU-subtitle
> > > > and mux it into the A/V-output-stream sent to the DVB-driver.
> > > >
> > > > When sending that A/V-stream to stdin of a programm (e.g. Mplayer)
> > > > instead of DVB-driver we could use every MPEG-capable mediaplayer as
> > > > A/V backend to VDR.
> > >
> > > i do have the code for that, as i was playing with dxr3 support for vdr
> > > myself. However, it is not that easy! SPU's have only 4 colors and vdr's
> > > main menu needs more. I belive that the best way to go for the dxr3 cards
> > > is to implement the main menu not as overlay, but to encode it in MPEG1
> > > with a static background and use OSD (SPU in that case) only for the osd
> > > parts (channel display, progress bar).
> >
> > I've found a better way. For DVD there are also CC-subtitles. Nearly all
> > RC1-DVDs use it for english subtitles. And CC is a 7-bit-like charset -
> > also a 386 could handle them.
> >
> > See CC-FAQ at http://www.robson.org/capfaq/index.html
> >
> > I don't know, yet, if it also can display graphic, but it would enable
> > embedding a ASCII-based OSD in MPEG-stream.
> 
> two questions:
> 1. can the DXR3 display those CC-subtitles and how?

I don't know much about the DXR3, but they're just implementing CC into
MPlayer.

> 2. have they enough colors and resolution to be used for vdr menus?
> 

I've found the documentation two hours ago, I'll read it over the
weekend ...

Rene