On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:33:58 +0300 (EEST) Rolf Ahrenberg rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi wrote:
The RGYB color enumeration is defined in the video teletext standard and every TV/STB set implementing the teletext feature DOES use the mentioned color button order. I guess the teletext is used mainly in Europe, so there might be different conventions elsewhere, but the VDR is a STB for DVB standard that documents the teletext too.
IMO, you really should switch the OSD button colors in skin plugins instead of patching the core VDR. There will be some glitches with learning the remotes, but these can be fixed with some extra documentation (Press 'Red/leftmost color' button). These remotes with "wrong" color button orders are really a small minority here mainly targeted to some odd mediacenters or PS3 - at least here in the northern Europe.
It isn't true that only very obscure and trashy remotes have the buttons in the wrong order. I've got a Sony TV where the colours are arranged in a sort of cross layout with green above blue and red and yellow at the sides. It's a good quality remote that I think was used with a number of different models of Sony TV set and it was definitely designed to support teletext.
I've got another remote with the wrong order which came with a KWorld DVB card bought from Maplins, a major high street electronics chain. That remote isn't really usable with VDR anyway though, because the colours are also play, pause, stop and record. I suppose they didn't think that people would use teletext or MHEG while watching a recording, and there is no standard for the way that VDR uses the colours. I can't use the remote that came with my other card (Hauppauge) because the current kernel/DVB drivers aren't compatible with it (for at least the 2nd time in hstory). So I'm making do with a wireless keyboard until that's fixed.