On Friday 24 February 2006 13:10, Niko Mikkila wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:35:47 +0200 > > Jouni Karvo <jouni.karvo@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Niko Mikkila writes: > > > Preview only works with full-featured DVB-cards that have an onboard > > > MPEG-2 decoder. With budget cards you can install streamdev-server > > > plugin and use streaming instead, but you won't get OSD that way. > > > > Well - I have got periodic still images (including OSD) with vdr-xine. > > I am not sure about after the last upgrade, though. For streaming, > > yes, no such thing. > > Interesting. Where does VDR Admin get those decoded images from? > I thought the only source VDR Admin uses is /dev/video* and that is > certainly not available when having only Xine (or softdevice or Dxr3) > as a decoder. Are you sure you don't have a FF card in your system? VDRAdmin uses VDR's "grab" command. AFAIK the output device plugins have to implement this feature so that VDR can grab. Seems like it's implemented for vdr-xine and FF cards, but not for vdr-softdevice. Regards, Andreas
