[Kwintv] teletext on Kwintv

Rizsanyi Zsolt rizsanyi at neobee.net
Sat May 10 01:54:54 CEST 2003


On Friday 09 May 2003 21.21, George Staikos wrote:
> On Sunday 04 May 2003 07:00, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 May 2003 11.37, Neil Macvicar wrote:
> > > On Saturday 03 May 2003 4:20 pm, Ronan McDonagh wrote:
> > > > Dear Sir/Madam,
> > > > 			  This is Ronan McDonagh from Dublin, Ireland.  I use Kwintv for
> > > > television on SuSE linux.   Just wonder, is there any plan about
> > > > teletext software for Kwintv?  If Kwintv have teletext, then I can
> > > > watch Kwintv with subtitles (page 888).  Let me know.  Thanks
> > >
> > > Ronan,
> > > 	I'm not sure if working VBI is built in yet, but what you can do is
> > > run alevt as well, and use this if you really require subtitles. Check
> > > out http://www.goron.de/~froese
> >
> > QtVision the rewrite of kwintv does contain support for teletext. Tough
> > it is not too userfriendly (it is pretty hard to turn it off ;-)
> > But it does have the advance in comparison to alevt that it is overlaid
> > over the screen, so it can be used for viewing subtitles.
> >
> > You should try out qtvision, and see if it suits your needs. Please write
> > back, how it goes.
>
>    If you have any suggestions for this, feel free to make some
> patches/commit fixes or even send them to the list in the worst case.

What is needed is to provide a menu entry and/or toolbar button for quickly 
turning teletext on-off.
A framework for allowing plugins to set up a toolbar button (action) was 
discussed a while ago. I'm waiting for somebody to implement that ;)

Regards
Zsolt



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