RE: Tivo OSD back

[Kevin Hawkins]

That is one well featured implementation Tony - well done.

In xAPLand we have a very basic xAP to yac application - monochrome and no
cursor addressing (as yac doesn't support it). So this 'all singing'
solution looks like a great candidate for the xPLHal gateway for us to make
use of from the xAP side. A sort of reverse version of the PC ON screen
display scenario.

I can't find any installation instructions for the hub or the osd
application though - are there any or do I literally get the files onto the
Tivo (intact) - enable the loopback and just run them.

K


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Tofts [mailto:<a
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> Sent: 23 September 2003 19:29
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> Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] Tivo OSD back
>
> > Does it support the full osd.basic schema ?
>
> Osd.basic / osd.tivo
>
> > Row / Column Addressing ?
>
> Yep
>
> > \n delimiters in text ?
>
> Yep
>
> > Foreground and Background Colours ?
>
> Yep, but their not documented... Yet
>
> > Opacity - allowing a text background overlay of say 50%
> > opacity ??
>
> Various background 'colours' have different effects
>
> > Delays - if several are set in different xPL messages
> > for different messages - are they maintained correctly ?
>
> Should be
>
> > I assume you can send successive messages to get text
> > in different colours ?
>
> Yep, or all in one message if you like
>
> E.g.
> Command=clear
> Forecol=1
> Text=hello\nworld
> Row=6
> Backcol=0
> Forecol=10
> Text=goodbye
>
> Etc etc
>
> The command= must appear only once and as the first item,
> All other items are optional and can be repeated at will
>
> > Clear - Write ? with overwriting support ?
>
> Clear - clears screen first
> Write - overwrites without clearing
>
> > Exclusive - Release ?
>
> Locks the display to a particular message source, until released E.g.
I
> use
> this to display the rio receiver menu, without interuption
>
> All of this is in the osd.tivo schema in the docs section of the
> website,
> but probably needs tidying (and needs list of colours added)
>
> > As it is based on yac - does it function as a yac
> > receiver still too ?
>
> Nope, it's actually based on a module that yac is based on, though it
> is a
> modified version from the yac source
>
> > As far as I can see the standard 0.15 yac code does not
> > support row/col or colour usage within a message - although
> > the overall colour can be preset.
>
> Never used yac, so can't comment
>
> > I'm right in believing there is no font size capability
> > yet discovered for Tivo aren't I ??
>
> I believe I know how to support different font sizes, though not sure
> if it
> will be possible to mix fonts at one time
>
> > And - perhaps a stupid question but why do I need a
> > Tivo hub if this is the only xPL application running ?
>
> All xpl applications (not devices) require a hub. Simple as that ;-)
>
> Though it would have been possible to consider tivo a device, I
decided
> against this as more tivo app's are in the pipeline. E.g. text-to-
> speech and
> (hopefully) recording programs under the control of xpl (digiguide
> messages
> etc)
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
>
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