This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Written by: Sascha Volkenandt Project's homepage: http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=osdpip Latest version available at: http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=osdpip See the file COPYING for license information. Requirements: - libmpeg2 (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net) version 0.4.0 (OLDER VERSIONS DON'T WORK) Description: OSD Picture-in-Picture is a PlugIn that displays the current channel in a small box on the screen (default upper right corner). You can switch up and down now, watching the progress of the previous channel in the box. Quality is not too good yet, and only I-Frames are displayed. From 0.0.2 on, the plugin supports two modes: grayscaled and 256 colored. If you want 256 colors, you'll need to upgrade your VDR to support a 256 color OSD with the provided patching instruction. You can choose the color depth in the setup menu. If you didn't patch VDR appropriately, you'll only be able to choose grayscaled mode. Also by 0.0.2, the plugin has the possibility to choose the PiP size (in the setup menu in factors of 1/x) and position (by moving it around using number keys) as well as crop dimensions. ATTENTION: To use PiP size factor 2 in 256 color mode, you need to set all crop values to >50 pixels. ATTENTION: To have the position saved, you have to enter the plugin's setup menu and hit the ok button. Installation: Let's say osdpip's version is 0.0.1 and vdr's version is 1.2.6. If you use anything else please exchange the version numbers appropriately (this way I don't have to update this section all the times;) ). cd vdr-1.2.6/PLUGINS/src tar xvfz vdr-osdpip-0.0.1.tgz ln -s osdpip-0.0.1 osdpip cd ../.. Now, you have to call your favourite editor to open osdbase.h and jump to line number 16. I don't provide a patch here because some patches already touch that area. Well this one's easy, though. Just increase the number of colors in this line to 256. If you don't want 256 color support, you can skip this part. #define MAXNUMCOLORS 256 Now, you have to re-build VDR and Plugins. make [options, if necessary] vdr make [options, if necessary] plugins Controls: Up/Down Switch Channel up/down 1-4,6-9 Move box around like with cursor keys 0 Switch back to PiP channel and exit PiP Back Exit PiP without switching back