Have you tried softhddevice for output? http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-softhddevice.git/ On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:01:54PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:19:48PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote: >>> >>> If I change the assignment to isTrueColor=false, the square goes away and >>> I will get the familiar gray rectangles on the screen (from the "else" block >>> that I omitted above). >> >> >> I did some further studying. The truecolor OSD was implemented early 2011. >> As far as I understand, the softdevice plugin is converting palette-based >> bitmaps into an ARGB layer. There is a comment at the end of the definition >> of class cOsd in osd.h that shows how the conversion should be done. >> >> It looks like I should simply follow this example, possibly implementing >> some kind of threshold mapping on the Alpha channel in case the Matrox does >> not implement 8-bit translucency but just a 1-bit transparency flag. So, I >> will try to remove the palette mapping from SoftOsd.c and replace the >> GetBitmap() call with the RenderPixmaps() loop. > > > I figured this out for the most part. The pixmap gets first converted to an > ARGB buffer cSoftOsd::OSD_Bitmap in FlushPixmaps() and DrawConvertPixmap(). > From OSD_Bitmap it gets converted to the screen memory. I did not change the > latter conversion. > > Maybe I did something wrong regarding DirtyDrawPort and DirtyViewport, > because I got occasional crashes when activating the OSD. When using a > full-screen OSD (filling the entire 1280×1024 panel) the bottom 4 or so > lines were never erased. > > I did not get to see DVB subtitles yet, either due to them not being present > in the live sendings at the moment I tested, or due to misconfiguration. I > guess that VDR 2.0 would allow the subtitles to be alpha-blended with the > OSD layer. > > My patch against softdevice-cvs is attached. I compiled it with the > following: > > vdr 2.0.4 > ffmpeg 0.5.13 > DirectFB 1.0.1 > DFB++ 1.0.0 > > Best regards, > > Marko > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
