Re: anybody using the dxr3 plugin with vdr 1.5.3?

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On 06/16/07 23:11, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit:
> anels work ok
>>> with a dxr3.
>>> Probaly antialiasing produces too many colours for the dxr3 to handle.
>> VDR's skins first check whether the OSD in use can handle 8bpp, and
>> only then uses a single 256 color bitmap (with font anti-aliasing).
>>
>> Maybe the dxr3 plugin claims to be able to handle 8bpp, but in fact can't?
> 
> IIRC (it's been a while since I touched the dxr3 plugin) it can only 
> handle 2bpp, but it can also use various regions ("highlights") each 
> with a different palette. The plugin uses this as a trick to obtain more 
> apparent bpp, so it accepts 8bpp, though the number of regions depends 
> on the distribution of the colours, and with too many regions the dxr3 
> misbehaves or even completely hangs.
> To simplify: it can handle 8bpp but only when there aren't too many 
> colours in a single line

This is not the recommended behavior.

If CanHandleAreas() is called with an 8bpp area, and the
OSD accepts that, it is assumed that the *entire* area can
be filled with arbitrary combinations of any of 256 colors.

Klaus

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