On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:24:43 -0700 (MST) "CR" <oauk32v02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Stefan, > > Thanks for your response. > > > > I'm using VDR 1.4.0-2, softdevice cvs 2006-5-30, nVidia 6200TC video card, > > > nVidia binary driver 8762, Xorg 6.8.1, TV-out (NTSC) @ 800x600x24bpp, GCC > > > 4.1.1 . > > > > Newer nvidia cards do not support Overlay mode: > > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/softdevice-devel/2006q1/001770.html > > Wow, I'm blown away by this. I had no idea nVidia would do something this > dumb. What's so dumb about that? The video blitter does about the same thing and more through the same old XVideo extension. Actually the blitter has much better scaling quality and is a lot faster than the overlay on my old Riva TNT 2. It also seems that the open source driver uses the blitter as the default XVideo adapter, and doesn't even offer overlay, at least on my card. AFAIK the only advantage the overlay has are brightness, contrast and hue controls, but I'd rather use the controls on my display anyway. Video textures through OpenGL seem to be the way to go since that allows hardware alpha blending for OSD among other effects. Regards, Niko Mikkil?
