Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 23:16 schrieben Sie: > Hi Klaus, > > don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. But I'm pretty angry > about the situation that VDR is (I don't care whether willingly or > not) endorsing these troublesome and expensive beasts since years. > > We have now at least since about two or three years cheap and good > alternatives and there have been efforts to write DirectFB and > Xine-backends for VDR but they never found their way into the > mainstream source which means nothing else than that they are born > dead.
Why should they ? The plugin you speak about exists since some months (weeks). In the time i was on the vdr list the xine plugin is the first real approach on having a software display and i have never seen a patch for 1.0.x that tried that. Patches were really successfull even if they were not in main vdr (think of AIO, who is running vdr w/o it ? I guess 50% using it). Further the "solution" you think of has some problems. - video cards with a good tv-out - I know none with the quality of the FF cards - video cards with TV as second head - this may be possible - drivers for a card with both of the above - none really available, at least if you speak about the last years. I don't know if the ATI TV-OUT on cards which are cheaper then the FF cards is know finally usuable. If you want the 3 above + a quiet and powerfull machine it is rather difficult and costs a lot more then a FF card. So if you say there is a real alternative - even if i'm not the one who can complain a lot - you are simply wrong. Further, that vdr is running only on FF cards is simply wrong. There is the DXR3 solution, and from what I have read the Xine-plugin is usuable too allready (So with Oxine or XineFB there are allready solutions and if people use it it will get better fast I guess. At the end i don't think it is vdr that people let buy the FF cards, but i don't want to speak about the real reasons here on the list ... If i say that the long-time number one application under win was relying on FF cards too i guess you know what i mean. Steffen -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.