On Dienstag 27 Juni 2006 22:18, CR wrote: > Hi Niko, > > Niko Mikkila wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > Video textures through OpenGL seem to be the way to go since that allows > > hardware alpha blending for OSD among other effects. > > Are you using one of these newer nVidia cards with VDR/softdevice? Would > you share your settings and experiences with it? Using the psuedo setting > for OSD I would get blinking video. Using the "software" setting I would > get OSD but the colors were wrong during DVD playback. To see which Xv ports are available, show us the output of command: xvinfo . For some cards switching between texture and overlay port can be done via X11 configuration parameters. For matrox cards it is: Option "TexturedVideo" "true" > > Yes video textures through OpenGL is a wonderful idea, but what in VDR > land supports that? Softdevice (according to another list member) doesn't > support XvMC so I assume it falls back on overlay support for OSD. I've Ogl running with mesa here, but it is using much more cpu than xv 30% - xv; 60 % ogl :-( . Blending OSD works, but I loose sync and frames when OSD gets an update for each displayed video frame, like vdr's recording info. -- Stefan Lucke
