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
well, i thought that the softdevice plugin could work as a 'regular' tv-application, that displays the decoded video via the v4l-interface, but still acts , in respect to VDR, as a DVB device. Softdevice wouldn't need to get the decoded video back into memory, it just would have to provide the OSD ontop of the v4l-video window. (you could compile DVB driver w/o OSD support, otherwise both-OSDs would be drawn (from ff card itself ))
do you understand what I have in mind? :)
regards,
Thomas