Quoting Thomas Glomann <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I eagerly followed the recent thread about using VDR on an Epia-M board > either > with softdevice or xine plugins. > > To sum things up: > > # if you want a real settop-box w/o keyboard, mouse, .. you better use the > the > softdevice plugin, right? > > # however, the softdevice plugin does not take use of the onbaord mpeg2 > decoder. So running on a M6000, VDR will probably work in software decoding > but it has a rather very high CPU usage. > > right? :) Depending of format to decode: yes. > > > 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
