[mythtv-users] Internal Video player OSD almost unreadable

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/16/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On 10/15/06, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> The OSD is drawn at video resolution.  So, when playing low resolution
> >> video
> >> files, as this guy is (548x244, as earlier in this thread), you get a
> >> low
> >> resolution, bad looking OSD.
> >
> > So does the OSD in MythVideo look ugly for all of you guys with the
> > Internal player when playing "low resolution videos"? Most of the
> > files I have seen so far are max 640x480, so still at a quite low
> > resolution.
>
> It looks okay at 720x480 (SD TV "resolution"), but when you enable Bob
> deinterlacing, it looks absolutely horrible.  The reason for this is
> because the OSD is drawn on top of the video, in the same layer.
> Unfortunately, this is not likely to be fixed for a while, because it
> requires somebody to write the code for doing an OpenGL or Composite
> Extension overlay.
>
> You could try to find a GeForce 5200 (or other 5-series card) and enable
> the Chromakey OSD, that looks great.  (And for people watching SD in HD
> resolutions, it looks great there as well).
>
> I recently upgraded to a new system with built-in 6150 onboard video for
> my frontend - I'm actually considering getting a PCI (not PCE-E, can't
> seem to find them anywhere, except maybe eBay) 5200 series card so that I
> can use the Chromakey hack again.

I believe Daniel is going to be working on a Composite Extension
overlay in his video branch, though it may take some time for it to
become available to all of us.

-- 
Steve
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