I'm using a recent version of the YAepg plugin and am quite happy with it but I have a couple of questions on it --
Is there any way to change the layout? My setup doesn't re-scale the output and give me the picture in picture small view while the EPG is up so that corner is wasted space. If I can spread the description across the top and leave the rest of the area for EPG information, then that would be perfect.
Also, is there an easy way to change the colors/fonts? Its ok the way it is, but would be cool if I can get it to be translucent or whatever.
There's also an interesting thing that happens -- occasionally the description text jumps with garbage characters in the window. More annoying then anything but it doesn't show the full description all the time.
Thanks Norm
There is no easy way to adjust any of it. But if you take a look at the yaepg.c file that is where all of the items are defined. Might play around in there, of course keeping a backup. Hopefully someday we will get a new release that will autoscale and maybe add some options to turn on and off. We will have to work on the author for that! :)
Mlists wrote:
I'm using a recent version of the YAepg plugin and am quite happy with it but I have a couple of questions on it --
Is there any way to change the layout? My setup doesn't re-scale the output and give me the picture in picture small view while the EPG is up so that corner is wasted space. If I can spread the description across the top and leave the rest of the area for EPG information, then that would be perfect.
Also, is there an easy way to change the colors/fonts? Its ok the way it is, but would be cool if I can get it to be translucent or whatever.
There's also an interesting thing that happens -- occasionally the description text jumps with garbage characters in the window. More annoying then anything but it doesn't show the full description all the time.
Thanks Norm
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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:59 -0600, Chad Flynt wrote:
There is no easy way to adjust any of it. But if you take a look at the yaepg.c file that is where all of the items are defined. Might play around in there, of course keeping a backup. Hopefully someday we will get a new release that will autoscale and maybe add some options to turn on and off. We will have to work on the author for that! :)
Given that there isn't an easy to change yaepg, is there any epg plugin that works with say text2skin? I like the full screen and scrolling method of yaepg.
Norm
Mlists wrote:
I'm using a recent version of the YAepg plugin and am quite happy with it but I have a couple of questions on it --
Is there any way to change the layout? My setup doesn't re-scale the output and give me the picture in picture small view while the EPG is up so that corner is wasted space. If I can spread the description across the top and leave the rest of the area for EPG information, then that would be perfect.
I have found that sometimes the video output driver is what causes the scaling to fail. Because of the scaling issues, I am assuming that you are not using a full featured dvb card. If you are using Xine, you might want to test various video output drivers. Some people have luck with xvmc, but XV seems to generally work for more setups. It really depends on the video card you are using. Also, make sure you have uncommented the #define in the Xine makefile for yaepg.
Also, is there an easy way to change the colors/fonts? Its ok the way it is, but would be cool if I can get it to be translucent or whatever.
look in yaepg.c for settings you can hardcode.
There's also an interesting thing that happens -- occasionally the description text jumps with garbage characters in the window. More annoying then anything but it doesn't show the full description all the time.
Hi,
C.Y.M wrote:
Is there any way to change the layout? My setup doesn't re-scale the output and give me the picture in picture small view while the EPG is up so that corner is wasted space. If I can spread the description across the top and leave the rest of the area for EPG information, then that would be perfect.
I have found that sometimes the video output driver is what causes the scaling to fail. Because of the scaling issues, I am assuming that you are not using a full featured dvb card. If you are using Xine, you might want to test various video output drivers. Some people have luck with xvmc, but XV seems to generally work for more setups. It really depends on the video card you are using. Also, make sure you have uncommented the #define in the Xine makefile for yaepg.
Any you'll have to use xine's post plugin vdr_video as it does the necessary scaling of the video data. But this kind of scaling doesn't work for xine's output drivers xvmc and xxmc as those drivers don't decode the image in software, so there is no way to access the decoded images and apply any effects.
Hardware scaling doesn't work in this case because xine's OSD is typically blended into the video frame in software. Hardware scaling is applied afterwards which would scale the OSD too. A possible cheat would be to allocate much larger images and to render the OSD at that size so that hardware scaling those images would still result in the expected output. But allocating such large images is a memory issue and on the other hand, most scaling hardware doesn't support those sizes anyway.
Bye.
I think the garbled text thing is using the nwer compiler. Need to switch to older one when compiling vdr. I had that before and it was because I had did an update, but forgot to switch the compiler back.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mlists" mlists@dressler.ca To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:50 AM Subject: [vdr] YAepg question
I'm using a recent version of the YAepg plugin and am quite happy with it but I have a couple of questions on it --
Is there any way to change the layout? My setup doesn't re-scale the output and give me the picture in picture small view while the EPG is up so that corner is wasted space. If I can spread the description across the top and leave the rest of the area for EPG information, then that would be perfect.
Also, is there an easy way to change the colors/fonts? Its ok the way it is, but would be cool if I can get it to be translucent or whatever.
There's also an interesting thing that happens -- occasionally the description text jumps with garbage characters in the window. More annoying then anything but it doesn't show the full description all the time.
Thanks Norm
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