OSD Picture-in-Picture

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. Best picture quality is achieved using 128 colors variable palette mode. You can decide which frames to play, best results are achieved when displaying I- and P-frames.

From 0.0.3 on, the plugin supports four modes: grayscaled (16 colors), grayscaled (256 colors), 256 colors with fixed palette and 128 colors with a variable palette. If you want 256/128 colors, you'll need to upgrade your VDR to support a 256 color OSD and variable palettes 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.

With 0.0.2, the plugin has the possibility to choose the PiP size (in the setup menu in 6 steps) and position (by moving it around using number keys) as well as crop dimensions.

With 0.0.4, a little window containing information about the current channel is displayed additionally.

With 0.0.5, you don't need a patch anymore if you are using VDR >= 1.3.7. The 256-color and the 128-color variable mode will work out-of-the-box

ATTENTION: To have the position saved, you have to enter the plugin's setup menu and hit the ok button.

Version 0.0.3 with all it's improvements have been kindly provided by Andreas Regel
Version 0.0.4 with all it's improvements have been kindly provided by Andreas Regel
Version 0.0.5 with all it's improvements have been kindly provided by Andreas Regel
Version 0.0.6 with all it's improvements have been kindly provided by Andreas Regel
Version 0.0.8 with all it's improvements have been kindly provided by Andreas Regel (many thanks!)

CHANGES since 0.0.7.1

• Added Navigation through channel in a way like with ordinary VDR. Use the Left/Right keys to select channel groups, OK to choose one or the number keys to directly enter a channel number. All this only works with enabled info window.
• Extended the info window to contain more information. The amount of information shown can be chosen through the setup menu. This directly affects the height of the info window.
• Using the info window to show vdr messages if they occur.
• Changed the manner the moving of the PiP window works. Now move mode is enabled or disabled by pressing the green button. In move mode, the cursor keys can be used to move the PiP window.
• Added some more predefined PiP window sizes. You have to reset your size in setup menu.
• Added support for ffmpeg 0.4.9 (should work with 0.4.8, too)
• Updated finnish translations (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg)
• Cleaned up, dropped support for vdr versions older than 1.3.8