Hi Johan, You have a good approach. I am using the vdr-ui frontend right now which uses the TS from streamdev to feed the mono player. I managed to have a compiled version of the xine lib but I failed to use it due to deep code cutting to get it running. As far as I have understood you succeed to have xine library available on your PCH. Making an adaptation of the OSD layer should then not be a big issue. The complexity will reside in the video stream handling as you have already mentioned. Digging into other projects or starting a discussion in the networkedmediatank can bring a lot of of knowledge here. This project sounds very interesting to me. If you need some help, I would be pleased to provide my support. Regards, Alex Johan Andersson wrote: > I need some advise on routes to look into on the subject. > > First, thank you Klaus and all for a great PVR. I have tried a lot of > others like Myth, MediaPortal, GBPVR etc, but the silent menusystems are > hopelessly inferior to having all menus on OSD. Me and my family have > used VDR for 2+ years now and we are all happy with it. > > I am not bleeding edge VDR with DVB-T in Sweden being SDTV and we have > only one TV-set although I'm running client/server xineliboutpout with a > dedicated frontend machine. > > I bought myself a PCH with the idea of using it instead of my PC VDR > frontend. > > With some effort and googling I got xineliboutputs vdr-fbfe (with > xinelib et.al) cross compiled and runnable on the PCH. > > However AFAIK, the directfb usage in xinelib is based on pixelmaps > written to a dfb surface, all mpeg decode is done in software, this is > suboptimal on the PCH along with sound being a problem. Running vdr-fbfe > on PCH says 'DFBGetSurface() not supported' and exits. > > It seems people have looked into streamdev instead. I like my VDR OSD > though on the TV-set, am I wrong in believing that is a nono with streamdev? > > Now PCH has an 'IAdvancedMediaProvider' extension to directfb seemingly > allowing the mpeg-stream to be sent directly to the hardware, thereby > including both video and audio, it is sadly not fully documented in the > headers released by Syabas... > > The most promising option as I see it is to slash down vdr-fbfe to only > display the 'osd_command' data on a PCH DFB layer without video > capability and stream 'normally' to PCH using ideally the xineliboutputs > servers ability to supply for example an http stream. The hope being > that the 'vdr-fbfe' application can access directfb concurrently and > have the OSD displayed ontop of the video layer. > > Before I dig deeper into this I would like to ask the community what has > been tried and what routes do you see as most viable? > > I know of some other PCH frontend software for GBPVR Myth, ie vomp and > mvcpmx(?) but they seem to return me to the world of silent menus, not a > place I want to be. > > /Johan > > > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
