[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r8364 by danielk

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 19:16 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Thursday 22 December 2005 18:16, mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org wrote:
> > References #843. This re-enables PiP.
> > This does not re-enable TV::SwapPIP(), this function as written

> The only way to do this properly is to have PiP record full-sized video for 
> both channels, and flip which one's displaying (semi-tricky, but not that 
> hard).  It currently records smaller-sized/bitrate video for the PiP window 
> to have less of an impact during playback, since it's limited to software 
> scaling for the display for that..
Yeah, I think I almost have NVP swapping working, but for it
to really work we would need to record a full size streams.

> _Might_ be able to have Xv do two streams nowadays, with cards that don't use 
> the overlay, though.
I'm pretty sure we could do this on cards that support chromakey.
But the only way to do it with the newer nVidia cards would be to
open up frameless window...

-- Daniel