[vdr] RE : Re: StillPicture in a plugin

["Olivier Jacques" <vdr@olivierjacques.com>]

> >By digging in the ML archives, I saw that Jan Elkom and Daniel Sáez 
> >Domingo succeeded in doing something like that (and probably 
> Klaus :) )
> 
> If this "Jan Elkom" refers to me I have to say that I never 
> got it to work properly. I didn't use the builtin 
> [Device]StillPicture() -methods, but instead tried to borrow 
> code from all over the place, such as the Image-plugin. With 
> some hacking I got pictures to show up, but they were usually 
> broken in some way and the image quality that I got was just 
> plain horrible. It looked like a JPEG packed with 1% quality 
> with clearly visible macroblocks and ugly colors. The MPEG 
> files themselves looked quite ok when viewed using MPlayer or 
> xanim. In the end I abandoned the idea of using VDR as an 
> image viewer and I instead created an SDL based image viewer 
> that uses the builtin TV out of the Mini-ITX.

Hello Jan, sorry if I misspelled your name! Your results seems strange
to me. Let's see what I can get with Klaus's advice.

Olivier.



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