Ville has committed to cvs my changes to the OSD routines. While I cannot do nothing to raise the number of colors visible at once, the plugin now reassigns unused colors at each screen refresh, so it's possible to use a different set of 16 colors each time. I needed this feature to use the Enigma skin with icons (I had to reduce the palette, you can find my set of icons at http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/Enigma/icons-low-col.tar.gz). This skin works (provided you use my icons and remove the channel logos), but it's too heavy on the dxr3 so it's not too stable with it, however the plugin should work much better than previous versions with lighter skins. It's also much simpler (even if I saw more places where I'm going to use my scissors). Please test it (but keep a backup of your working copy just in case).
Bye
Luca Olivetti wrote:
Ville has committed to cvs my changes to the OSD routines. While I cannot do nothing to raise the number of colors visible at once, the plugin now reassigns unused colors at each screen refresh, so it's possible to use a different set of 16 colors each time.
Hi Luca,
is it different to what you posted as "[PATCH] dxr3 better (hopefully) color management" including optimizations a few days earlier ?
I needed this feature to use the Enigma skin with icons (I had to reduce the palette, you can find my set of icons at http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/Enigma/icons-low-col.tar.gz).
"Página no encontrada". I don't know much spanish, but that's something I know :).
BTW: I use Enigma skin, too, without any icons (I just left "symbols/" at its place) and it works great...
Martin Cap wrote:
Luca Olivetti wrote:
Ville has committed to cvs my changes to the OSD routines. While I cannot do nothing to raise the number of colors visible at once, the plugin now reassigns unused colors at each screen refresh, so it's possible to use a different set of 16 colors each time.
Hi Luca,
is it different to what you posted as "[PATCH] dxr3 better (hopefully) color management" including optimizations a few days earlier ?
Yes, it is *very* different. That's why I said to keep a backup of your working copy ;-)
I needed this feature to use the Enigma skin with icons (I had to reduce the palette, you can find my set of icons at http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/Enigma/icons-low-col.tar.gz).
"Página no encontrada". I don't know much spanish, but that's something I know :).
I re-downloaded just now to check: it is there.
BTW: I use Enigma skin, too, without any icons (I just left "symbols/" at its place) and it works great...
Well, with the cvs version it works even with the icons ;-)
Bye
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 16:49 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Martin Cap wrote:
is it different to what you posted as "[PATCH] dxr3 better (hopefully) color management" including optimizations a few days earlier ?
Yes, it is *very* different. That's why I said to keep a backup of your working copy ;-)
Backups are for wimps :) Seriously, the new stuff seems to work much better here than the one before the rework.
Well, with the cvs version it works even with the icons ;-)
To clarify, this stuff resides in the vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch in CVS, so be sure to checkout that branch, not HEAD/MAIN.
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:10 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 16:49 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Martin Cap wrote:
is it different to what you posted as "[PATCH] dxr3 better (hopefully) color management" including optimizations a few days earlier ?
Yes, it is *very* different. That's why I said to keep a backup of your working copy ;-)
Backups are for wimps :) Seriously, the new stuff seems to work much better here than the one before the rework.
Well, with the cvs version it works even with the icons ;-)
To clarify, this stuff resides in the vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch in CVS, so be sure to checkout that branch, not HEAD/MAIN.
What is the overall status of all of these changes? I've not really had time to keep up with all of the patches flying back and forth!
I'm currently using dxr3-0.2.3-pre2 with several patches applied for compatibility with more recent vdr versions. Should I try checking out a new version yet? I'm currently setting up an Epia based system so this may be academic for me but my brother is just setting up a new system with a dxr3!
Is this cvs at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin or somewhere else? Just had a quick look and could only see HEAD and MAIN branches there.
Cheers,
Laz
Laurence Abbott wrote:
What is the overall status of all of these changes? I've not really had time to keep up with all of the patches flying back and forth!
The OSD works much better: better scaling, better use of colors, no bleeding. That's the only thing I touched seriously (I'm not knowledgeable enough to touch the other stuff, like the demuxer). Ville's been commiting patches to make it compatible with new vdr versions and assorted fixes. So, there are still many problems but many things have improved.
I'm currently using dxr3-0.2.3-pre2 with several patches applied for compatibility with more recent vdr versions. Should I try checking out a new version yet?
Why not? Keep a copy of what's working for you now and then try the new stuff. If it doesn't work you can always go back, but I doubt you'll want to ;-)
I'm currently setting up an Epia based system so this may be academic for me but my brother is just setting up a new system with a dxr3!
Is this cvs at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin or somewhere else? Just had a quick look and could only see HEAD and MAIN branches there.
There's also a vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch.
Bye
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:49 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
The OSD works much better: better scaling, better use of colors, no bleeding. That's the only thing I touched seriously (I'm not knowledgeable enough to touch the other stuff, like the demuxer). Ville's been commiting patches to make it compatible with new vdr versions and assorted fixes. So, there are still many problems but many things have improved.
The bleeding colours were always a bit odd!
I'm currently using dxr3-0.2.3-pre2 with several patches applied for compatibility with more recent vdr versions. Should I try checking out a new version yet?
Why not? Keep a copy of what's working for you now and then try the new stuff. If it doesn't work you can always go back, but I doubt you'll want to ;-)
That's a very confident statement!
;-)
I'll give it a go: I was thinking I'd have to check it out and then fiddle lots to get it compiled.
There's also a vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch.
Hmmmm...trying to browse the cvs repository at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/dxr3plugin/
doesn't list it!
I'll try checking it out from home later on.
Cheers,
Laz
Laurence Abbott wrote:
There's also a vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch.
Hmmmm...trying to browse the cvs repository at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/dxr3plugin/
doesn't list it!
Try http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/dxr3plugin/dxr3/
Bye
On Monday 18 Apr 2005 17:14, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Laurence Abbott wrote:
There's also a vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch.
Hmmmm...trying to browse the cvs repository at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/dxr3plugin/
doesn't list it!
Hmmmm...just checked it out and built it and I have no OSD at all! I think I have managed to grab the HEAD branch! I used the following to check it out:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin -bvdr-dxr3-0-2 co dxr3
Shouldn't that give me the desired vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch?!
:-s
The HISTORY file has things like "- fix aspect ratio after returning from the MPlayer plugin (Luca Olivetti)" which I saw mentioned the other day!
Browsing the correct cvs branch shows another couple of entries in this faile after this.
Any thoughts apart from grabbing the newer files by hand?!
Cheers,
Laz
Laz wrote:
have managed to grab the HEAD branch! I used the following to check it out:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin -bvdr-dxr3-0-2 co dxr3
Shouldn't that give me the desired vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch?!
Hi,
It's "-rvdr-dxr3-0-2" instead of "-bvdr-dxr3-0-2" in your statement.
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 19:28 +0200, Martin Cap wrote:
Laz wrote:
have managed to grab the HEAD branch! I used the following to check it out:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin -bvdr-dxr3-0-2 co dxr3
Shouldn't that give me the desired vdr-dxr3-0-2 branch?!
Hi,
It's "-rvdr-dxr3-0-2" instead of "-bvdr-dxr3-0-2" in your statement.
And move that after the "co".
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin \ co -r vdr-dxr3-0-2 dxr3
(Yes, this needs to be documented somewhere to avoid the repeated noise on this list. I'm waiting for Christian's input...)
I demand that Ville Skyttä may or may not have written...
[snip]
Backups are for wimps :)
You will lose a hard disk tonight. ;-)
Luca Olivetti wrote:
BTW: I use Enigma skin, too, without any icons (I just left "symbols/" at its place) and it works great...
Well, with the cvs version it works even with the icons ;-)
Hi,
hmm, not for me. I took your set of icons but VDR still crashes, removing the icons-directory from Enigma makes it work again (I used no logos). Did you remove the symbols-directory from Enigma to make it work ?
En/na Martin Cap ha escrit:
Luca Olivetti wrote:
BTW: I use Enigma skin, too, without any icons (I just left "symbols/" at its place) and it works great...
Well, with the cvs version it works even with the icons ;-)
Hi,
hmm, not for me. I took your set of icons but VDR still crashes, removing the icons-directory from Enigma makes it work again (I used no logos). Did you remove the symbols-directory from Enigma to make it work ?
No, I just removed (renamed actually) the hqlogos directory. *However* it's not too stable with the icons :-( (vdr doesn't crashes though, just the dxr3 goes berserk and resets: it's probably too much for the spu of the em8300).
Bye
On Monday 18 Apr 2005 18:32, Ville Skyttä wrote:
And move that after the "co".
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin \ co -r vdr-dxr3-0-2 dxr3
(Yes, this needs to be documented somewhere to avoid the repeated noise on this list. I'm waiting for Christian's input...)
DOH! Finally got it sorted out.
It looks great, so far. I can now use skins other than the default or ST-TNG panels one and they don't look really nasty! I'm currently using the enElchi skin and it works mostly OK (the channel info comes out as grey text on a grey background for some channels but it also does this with the xine output plugin!).
The way it treats the aspect ratio has also changed and that threw me to start with but it now gives what I would expect for how it is set, i.e. letterboxed 16:9 on my 4:3 TV.
I'll stick with this to see if there are any major issues with it (haven't tried playing back any recordings or moving cut-marks, etc. yet).
Cheers,
Laz
Luca Olivetti wrote:
hmm, not for me. I took your set of icons but VDR still crashes, removing the icons-directory from Enigma makes it work again (I used no logos). Did you remove the symbols-directory from Enigma to make it work ?
No, I just removed (renamed actually) the hqlogos directory. *However* it's not too stable with the icons :-( (vdr doesn't crashes though, just the dxr3 goes berserk and resets: it's probably too much for the spu of the em8300).
I've reduced the icons to 3 colors (here: http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/Enigma/icons-low-low-col.tar.gz) so there are more colors available for the rest of the menu (e.g. messages would show black with the previous iconset). It's still too much for the poor em8300, but more or less it works here.
Bye
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