I'm having decent luck with it, actually. I'm using an mplayer built from the runtime scripts, which get Mplayer as of 2/13/03.
What I had started doing was emulating (some of) the on-screen displays that the ReplayTV does. Basically, this consists of echoing remote commands with icons that start opaque and fade out over a couple of seconds. I started out modifying mplayer's bmovl-test.c and calling the modded .exe with os.system. I'm sort of in the middle of adapting Aubin's python code to feed the FIFO. The one advantage I hope to get over the stand-alone .exe is to cut out the png loading latency by caching the bitmaps in python (somehow). Two issues worth noting have come up: - mplayer doesn't service the bmovl fifo while paused. This is ok for keeping the "pause" icon (||) showing, but ReplayTV, for instance, counts down the remaining time-shift buffer space available (in h:mm:ss form). That doesn't seem possible with bmovl. - I was surprised that the global/parent eventhandler was being called in addition to the local one. For example, in tv/timeshift.py's event handler, I pop up the "mute" icon, but the main eventhandler actually mutes the audio. maybe the sense of the event handler return value is just the opposite of what I thought. --- Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:11:39PM -0400, Rob Shortt wrote: > > I have been trying to get bmovl working because I want to add some > > channel numbers to the screen while watching tv and changing channels. > > > > I am using mplayer frmo CVS from a couple days ago, and am testing it > > using bmovltest.py in Aubin's WIP directory. However after running > > mplayer with '-vop bmovl=0:0:/tmp/freevo.fifo' then run bmovltest.py > > once the second rectangle draws to the screen mplayer and bmovltest.py > > hang and I have to kill -9 mplayer. > > Had the same problems myself; was the reason I didn't spend as much > time on bmovl as I would have liked (too frustrated :) > > > I am wondering if bmovl is broken in mplayer CVS. Can anyone else help > > me confirm this? > > I'm pretty sure this is the case. > > Aubin > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! > NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
