On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 03:27 +0200, Markus Schuster wrote: > With Bloomberg (German news/stock channel) I see a very odd behavior: To have > to video itself fullscreen, I have to enable local frontend scaling but then > the OSD is renderd much too big. So I have to enable OSD resizing/downscaling > which results in a very unnice OSD (fonts look a bit ugly and the complete > OSD is not the nicest view.). Probably channel uses smaller resolution than VDR OSD (720x576). There are two methods for OSD blending: 1) "scaled OSD": OSD is blended to each video frame in software. Because of this OSD size and resolution can't exeed video size/resolution, and OSD can't be drawn outside of video frame (=those black bars resulting from hardware scaling when fitting 4:3 video to 16:9 display or opposite). If video is lower resolution than OSD, OSD must be cropped or downscaled. (Well, another possibility would be upscaling video in software). 2) "unscaled OSD": OSD and video are mixed by hardware using either colorkeying (no opacity) or hardware RGBA layer. OSD and video can be of different size and OSD can be blended outside of video frame. OSD size is constant (fbdev primary layer size, most likely 720x576). Xine-lib directfb driver supports method 2) for only some hardware with ARGB blending capacity. For the rest method 1) is used. I have experimental patch to support colorkeying mode when hardware does not support separate ARGB OSD layer, I just need to adjust it for recent xine-libs. > And channels broadcasting a 16:9 signal are always scaled up to my 4:3 CRT TV, > so I have the typical 'long faces' (I think that's only a configuration > setting, but I haven't been able to locate it...) You should use --aspect=4:3 option with vdr-fbfe (or if you are not using vdr-fbfe, select 4:3 aspect ratio from plugin setup menu -> Local frontend -> Aspect ratio). - Petri
