<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics <<a href="mailto:steve@priorityelectronics.com">steve@priorityelectronics.com</a>> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> Subject: [mythtv-users] disable volume osd</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> Is there any simple way to turn off the Volume OSD, specifically in the</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> DVD player? It's not a big deal for regular tv programs, but when I'm</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> having friends over watching movies on my mythtv projector setup,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> I like to keep intrusions to a minimum. The other OSD components</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> don't matter, like when skipping chapters or fast forwarding, because</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> it already breaks the immersion, so that's no big deal, but sometimes</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> the volume gets too loud or quiet, and I would like to be able to tweak</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> the sound without a glaring big indicator breaking the watchers'</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> concentration.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> You could set up your system so that when you change the volume that it changes the volume of the sound system, and not the volume the computer outputs.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> I think there is a setting for that, and you'd have to setup an ir blaster for your sound system.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">>> -Steve</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Pat Pierce <<a href="mailto:raker1000@gmail.com">raker1000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> that would be doable, but not very simple. I'd rather not have to</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> setup new hardware if i can avoid it. Is it possible to maybe delete</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> the image file for the volume display? I can write a script that would</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> rename it and put it back or something, and then just run that when</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> I want to turn off the volume osd.Can someone tell me where the files reside that control the osd</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> stuff? is it xml, or something like that?</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">> ______________________________</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Ok, i got the hang of this "no top posting now" :)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Anyway, I have found that in the /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">dir there are several directories for the OSD themes.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> mythtv@dora:/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes$ ls -d *OSD<br> Gray-OSD Iulius-OSD Retro-OSD Titivillus-OSD</b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">In</span><font face="courier new,monospace"> each directory there is a file osd.xml, and if you<br>
comment out the 'container name="status"' stanza<br>then the next time you start a dvd or recording or livetv,<br>the volume works without showing anything onscreen. However,<br>the video position OSD is linked to this same "status"<br>
object, so you lose that as well. All or nothing, I guess.<br><br>Pat<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></font>