> > > 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
