[vdr] Re: fonts

[Paul Bristow <paul@paulbristow.net>]

Christian Berger wrote:

>Maybe a stupid question. Those 2MB RAM seem to also contain the 
>framebuffer of the card. Wouldn't it be possible to stop sending a stream 
>to the DSP and directly overwrite the framebuffer to get full-colour 
>menues.
>
>  
>
The way it's done in a lot of Set Top Boxes is to send an MPEG I-frame to
the MPEG decoder and run the OSD over that.  That way you have 24bit colour
for the background with the text and highlight being done using the OSD.
 Is that possible with vdr?

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