Quoting Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com:
Why not go all the way and implement an opengl rendered OSD with vdpau? This would of course require information from vdr in a slightly different form; ie. semantically instead of pixels. I'd suggest trying to get the OSD information as HTML from VDR, then allowing the frontend to render it in any way it deems suitable, with fancy animation, transition effects, icons etc. This might also make it easier to implement text-only OSD, eg for terminal connections.
I don't think that HTML is a good idea, it should be more general. I would suggest XML with SVG for graphics and animations. Together with XSLT it would be easy to have different themes.
Gerald
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