[mythtv] Experimental epia/xvmc colour osd HACK

Mike Taylor mike at inwesttitle.com
Sat Jan 29 13:39:05 EST 2005


Ivor Hewitt wrote:

>On Monday 24 Jan 2005 19:45, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tuesday 28 December 2004 00:01, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
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>>>All,
>>>
>>>Updated colour osd hack attached with fixed font code as promised.
>>>
>>>The corresponding epiaosd theme is at:-
>>>http://www.ivor.it/mythtv/epiaosd.tar.gz
>>>
>>>Basically this speeds up the osd drawing for xvmc by rendering everything
>>>directly into IA44 format, also the fonts are rendered as monochrome
>>>bitmaps rather than anti-aliased bitmaps. This speedup removed the
>>>prebuffer pauses as the OSD fades in and out.. and of course provides the
>>>added bonus of colour.
>>>
>>>Still rather hacky of course. :-)
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>      
>>>
>>any chance of an updated patch against current CVS?
>>i want to update my machines because the dvb-s stuff has gone into cvs
>>the last patch published does not apply because the aspect ratio
>>calculations have been amended.
>>
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>I'll sort out a new patch soon. I was busy writing a DVB-Interactive viewer... 
>but then got sort of sidetracked doing: http://www.ivor.it/goog
>
>:-)
>
>I've got a half finished patch to remove the palette hack, so I'll finish that 
>and make another release soonish.
>
>
>Cheers,
> 
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>

Just want to say thanks for your work on this! 
When you finish the patch will be included in the CVS tree?

--Mike


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