Adding VNC-Feature for Remote-OSD

[techfreak]

Hi all

I would like to add a new feature to VLC to use it as streaming client in Windows for the ffnetdev-Plugin of VDR (open soure "video disk recorder" on linux).

The plugin ffnetdev in VDR sends the current video-stream (without OSD) over the network instead of decoding and showing it locally. The On-Screen-Display is offered over a VNC-Connection.

Do you agree when I want to do this?

I already downloaded and compiled (in Linux) the current source code from SVN and was also able to get a self-compiled windows executable of VLC. I did this in a VM-Ware virtual machine running ubuntu 7.10.

After looking at the source code I assume the best way to implement this feature would be a new video-filter. The "logo" filter seems to be a good base to do this, changing that the data in p_pic of the logo_t struct is filled by the VNC data instead of a picture from a file.
But I did not find yet much information and samples on how to fill the picture_t type with data.

Do you have any comments or suggestions for me?


Best regards and a happy new year

techfreak

edit:
I forgot to say that VLC already is able to get the videostream from the ffnetdev-Plugin without any code change by starting with "vlc tcp://VDR-IP-Adresse:20002".
The only missing is an overlay with the OSD.

[techfreak]

Hello there

Can anyone please provide me some lines of sample code on how to fill a picture_t struct with some hardcoded pixels with hardcoded colors?

thank for help.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

ask on the mls.

[techfreak]

ask on the mls.

What is "mls"?

I assume you mean the mailing lists and will ask there.

Regards, techfreak