[vdr] Re: I have a dream ;-)

[Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2002-07-22 um 17.26 schrieb Andreas Schultz:
> On Monday 22 July 2002 16:33, Stefan Schluenss wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > This sounds like you got the DXR3 to display your subtitles? I tried it a
> > > nd it
> > > refused to display mine. I actualy have some code to convert vdr's cBitma
> > > p's
> > > into SPU's (without the highlight).
> >
> > It seems to me that the subpicture data will only be processed while a
> > video is running.
> > Currently i'm 'cat-ing' a mpeg file to the DXR3 video device and then send
> > the spu data to the spu device. The spu data will than be shown directly.
> 
> that's great.
> I will dig-out my vdr-dxr3 support patches and add live tv capabilities. 
> Hopefully you can the add the OSD-to-SPU support.

Could you also use the RTP-part of streaming-patch to provide the
A/V-stream with SPU over RTP? This would make it possible to use nearly
every MediaPlayer (even on client-machines).

Rene

> 
> > > Also, it appears that there can only be one active highlight area, that
> > > effectivly would limit us to 8 out of 16 colors. Also, one would most
> > > certainly wish to use the highlight area for the cursor bar leaving you w
> > > ith
> > > only 4 colors for the main menue, not enough colors for the colored key a
> > > rea
> > > at the bottom of the menue area.
> >
> > Yes, i thought that too first. But after reading
> > http://members.aol.com/mpucoder/DVD/spu.html i was able to generate 8
> > highlight regions with each having it's own color (indices into color
> > palette and transparency values). And a button could additionally be
> > defined via ioctl.
> 
> great.
> >
> > > > This seems to be promising. The work is still going on and maybe our dr
> > >
> > > eam
> > >
> > > > comes true.
> > >
> > > playback i have already working and transfer mode should be trivial.
> > >
> > > > (Think how cheap a vdr-station could be by using a Nova and a DXR3,
> > > > especially when bought at ebay)
> > >
> > > One more thing, a very low end system could eventualy run into problems,
> > > as
> > > the dxr3 apparently can only play PCM audio and the DVB MPEG2 audio strea
> > > m
> > > therefore needs be decoded by the main CPU.
> >
> > Yes, that's true. But nevertheless, such a system would be much cheaper
> > than a DVB-s/Nova system for timeshift.
> 
> definetly, and also a Pentium 200MMX should be handle it anyway ....
> 
> Andreas
> -- 
> Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
> Student of computer science
> 
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>