[mythtv-users] OSD display issue

[Bennett Leve]

Dan,

Thanks, I am using the PVR-350.  Will look forward to seeing if the new 
ivtv drivers correct this.

Thanks

-Bennett

Dan Wilga wrote:

> At 10:11 PM -0400 10/4/05, bleve wrote:
>
>> I know this is probably a setting issue but could not find it.  I 
>> installed the latest Knoppmyth and when I try to change the OSD in 
>> the settings it does not change.  I can select a different OSD and 
>> the main OSD menu color may change but the channel guide is always 
>> the same.
>
>
> I think you're a little confused about the terminology. OSD refers to 
> the style of the display that happens while video is playing, i.e.: 
> the progress bar that pops up when you press Pause or the channel 
> up/down buttons in browse mode.
>
> The Guide's appearance is part of the main theme used by the rest of 
> the frontend. This is set in Settings->Appearance.
>
>> When I change the guide to be opaque, it is still translucent as 
>> well.  How do I get the channel guide to become opaque?
>
>
> You must be using a PVR-350. That's the only way the guide works when 
> your TV is connected to the output of a 350 (at least in current 
> stable versions; this may have changed in SVN, I'm not sure). The 
> reason is that the 350 can't efficiently display a small, PiP-style 
> image in the upper-right corner of the EPG the way other video cards 
> can, so the developers decided that showing it full-screen translucent 
> was the best compromise.
>
> Later versions of the ivtv driver for the 350 include a much improved 
> framebuffer driver that should be able to handle the PiP-style 
> preview, but I don't know if Myth takes advantage of this yet.
>
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