Re: Redirect the framebuffer /dev/fb0 to a DVB-Card
Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.fbdev.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, jabiruh wrote:
> My linvdr (Mini-Distri for VDR) system has got two DVB-Cards and only a TV
> attatched to it (no other Monitor).
> Now I would like to install the webbrowser links2 which uses the framebuffer
> to run graphic mode.
> Is there any possibility to redirect the output of the browser to TV over the
> DVB-Card? Do I have to convert the framebuffer to mpeg first, so that MPlayer
> can show it like other videos on TV?
> I already tried several mailing lists (MPlayer, ImageMagic and mjpeg) to find
> a solution, but nobody knows how to do this).
If your DVB card has a fullscreen OSD mode (some only support a limited number
of very small OSD windows), you can write a frame buffer device for the OSD
plane. Then you can have a text console, X, links2, ... in the OSD plane, and
video in the video plane underneath (controllable through an alpha/transparency
parameter).
This is a common approach in Set Top Boxes.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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