Quoting Thomas Glomann mailinglists@glomann.de:
Hi,
I eagerly followed the recent thread about using VDR on an Epia-M board either with softdevice or xine plugins.
To sum things up:
# if you want a real settop-box w/o keyboard, mouse, .. you better use the the softdevice plugin, right?
# however, the softdevice plugin does not take use of the onbaord mpeg2 decoder. So running on a M6000, VDR will probably work in software decoding but it has a rather very high CPU usage.
right? :)
Depending of format to decode: yes.
Now, could the softdevice plugin be modified in a way that it takes the decoded video from the ff card, instead of the ffmpeg software decoder, and then overlays the decoded video with the OSD (using DirectFB).
In short, can the softdevice plugin somehow take use of the onboared hw mpeg2 decoder of a ff card?
There is to my knowledge _no_ way to get decoded data from any hardware decoder addon card, back to PC memory.
Stefan Lucke