Hi,
Support for seeing the VDR osd over mplayer doesn't exist yet.
Who could add this feature please? And what would be the price?
(Perhaps this could help: https://urandom.ca/mebox/downloads/vf_overlay.txt)
TIA for any proposals,
Am 2013-02-27 11:56, schrieb Peter Münster:
I think this is already work in progress: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board17-developer/board21-vdr-plugins/p1127401-play...
Gerald
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Gerald Dachs vdr@dachsweb.de wrote:
That's an alternative to the mplayer plugin -- still very new and primitive. It would be much better to have this support added to the mplayer plugin which is already stable and more capable.
Am 27.02.2013 11:56, schrieb Peter Münster:
Support for seeing the VDR osd over mplayer doesn't exist yet.
Who could add this feature please? And what would be the price?
Basically, the OSD-over-mplayer does work for dvbsddevice and other devices that mplayer supports. Also, there was already an attempt to get mplayer plugin working for TT6400/dvbhddevice cards, but it got stuck a long time ago:
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/105...
One thing the thread has is a generic solution for the need to mix OSD and video stream: There's a modified version of mplayer plugin that moves this part where it belongs, back into VDR. Instead of VDR closing the video device for mplayer while keeping the OSD open, VDR takes over a stream from mplayer and forwards it to the proper output device, whichever that is. Problem however is that the old stream output feature of mplayer is suffering from bit rot, and isn't working very well. Plus, the TT6400 didn't like the mplayer encoded stream.
Cheers,
Udo
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Udo Richter udo_richter@gmx.de wrote:
Is there any hope that this could be resurrected? Also, what about those of us who use VDPAU?
Am 27.02.2013 22:16, schrieb VDR User:
Is there any hope that this could be resurrected? Also, what about those of us who use VDPAU?
Its more a thing for hardware decoder cards that cannot handle an uncompressed video stream, as it always re-encodes to some fixed output format, eg. mpeg1/2.
The mplayer plugin modification should be ressurectable, with some updates to plugin structure. It basically expects a video stream that can be handled by the output device delivered via unix pipe. However, the mplayer playback-recode-to-file feature is quite broken, and currently needs some ugly workarounds. And of course, its still uncertain why the TT6400 denies playback of mplayer encoded video.
Cheers,
Udo
Am 27.02.13 11:56, schrieb Peter Münster:
Support for seeing the VDR osd over mplayer doesn't exist yet.
I use xineliboutput with a nvidia on-board graphic card to replay all kind of video without problems (SD and HD).
Matthias
On Wed, Feb 27 2013, Matthias Fechner wrote:
I use xineliboutput too, but it crashes too often. See also http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/47161
Am 27.02.13 23:01, schrieb Peter Münster:
I use xineliboutput too, but it crashes too often. See also http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/47161
I used gentoo without problems and now yavdr without problems. It never crashed so it is related to the version/distribution or to your hardware you are using.
Gruß, Matthias
On Thu, Feb 28 2013, Matthias Fechner wrote:
You are probably right. But since the mplayer-plugin is so much better for me (it starts directly with the main-film of the DVD), I won't investigate further with the xineliboutput-plugin. (Though I still use it for TV-output).
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