Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 05/27/07 19:11, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 May 2007, at 17:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely drop all the pixel font stuff.
Have you given some thought to how to do OSD with HDTV? I guess one could either have a few supported resolutions, 480P, 720P and 1080P, or just go completely resolution independent.
I'd support resolution independency, as I run VDR xineliboutput at the native resolution of my LCD TV, i.e. 1366x768.
This has nothing to do with the question of dropping the pixel fonts. And since there is no actual DVB card available, yet, that could display any OSD on HDTV (let a lone HDTV at all), I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Unfortunately I'm not too confident that there will be any new DVB cards with built-in decoders with HDTV output interface with OSD.
It seems to me like in the future HDTV picture would be output via DVI/HDMI of graphics adapter (or integrated one). I think some DVB cards with hardware HDTV decoding support could appear, though.