[vdr] Re: fonts

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:32:10PM +0200, Paul Bristow wrote:
> 
> Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> 
> > Paul Bristow wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > ja but you won't be able to have the underlying video! or am I wrong?
> 
> You are correct, but if you are doing a full screen menu, like EPG, 
> Recording listing or timer setting, that's probably OK.  It should 
> probably be a setting somewhere - choose <video background> or <pretty 
> mode>.

... the new firmware is able to do timeshifting on the same card.
The question which rises: is it possible to make an overlay with
the OSD into the frames out of a short timeshift ... or think
about an OSD with a pip of the current program.



        Werner