[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.5.0 plugin

[Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@pobox.com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 22:40 +0200, Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> 
> > Can the no signal picture be delayed half a second, so that it doesn't
> > appear inbetween channel changes? 
> 
> As the text "NO SIGNAL" isn't that importent anymore after getting it working 
> once, you might try the file "noSignal-completelyBlack.pes". Just rename it to 
> "noSignal.pes" and you'll see just a black screen inbetween channel changes, 
> as seen by most settop boxes, too.
> 
> > Also, is it hard to not scale the OSD with the picture? It changes ratio
> > together with the current program/channel ratio.
> 
> xine blends the OSD into raw video data and later the image get's scaled 
> (usually with hardware support (xv, vidix)) according to the stream's aspect 
> ratio.

Would it be possible to scale the no signal picture to that of the
stream currently being buffered up? This would make the OSD which
appears at the same time as the no signal picture to have the same ratio
as the next channel being shown, avoiding the change of ratio for the
OSD.

> If you could live without a semi transparent OSD, you might try the plugin 
> setting "OSD unscaled". Then xine will use X11 to draw the OSD on top of the 
> video, maintaining the original OSD ratio.

I tried this one, but it wasn't centered and lacked transparency.

> BTW: As I don't own a full featured card and a 16:9 TV set, how does
> such a card display the OSD when a 16:9 program is playing?

Sorry, I display on a radeon myself to a 16x9 projector. 

-- 
-Torgeir