On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
So there's no vdr output plugin option available that uses ffmpeg for vdpau decoding and also provides the user with VDR's osd.
Hopefully someone capable of writing an output plugin will take interest after reading all the recent posts on the subject.
So you insist on the decoding being done by the VDR plugin? It's far more flexible if the VDR plugin serves a stream without decoding it and the player is separate. And that way we only need a new player, a suitable streaming plugin, including OSD, already exists in xineliboutput.
So instead of maintaining just a plugin (which depends on ffmpeg decoding rather then xinelibs decoding), you think maintaining a new player altogether in addition to a plugin that streams data into it? Not to mention forcing VDR into being a backend only. I know some people have had success turning VDR into a server/client system but when I tried it, it was trash and a long way from usable in a 'stable' or 'daily use' VDR environment so I'm not that easily convinced the idea is a great one.
Don't get me wrong however, I'm not knocking any alternative to something that is completely independent of xinelib. If what you suggests is really so simple, _stable_, and provides _all_ necessary functionality for the user then I'm all for it. Until something exists in reality that we can test though, it's all just tossing around ideas. Although I personally have success with the xinelib+vdr-xine combo, I'm more then willing to test other options that include vdpau support and are 100% independent of xinelib and anything else I don't need or want.