Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2018 18:48:51 +0200 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Peter Suetterlin wrote:
I'm playing with VDR on my TW system. It is started via systemd, and
I remember reading about VDR years ago, a c't article I think it was. When I set up my own vdr in 2012, I am certain I looked at it too, but then quickly moved to mythtv instead. I haven't looked back. My only worry is needing to upgrade MythTV one of these days - my version needs corresponding backend and front end versions.
How well does this work in regard to recording broadcast programmes? If there's a clash can it move scheduled recordings to another channel or time as available? Can it prefer HD recordings to SD? Can it deal with situations where the EIT data is wrong and just record everything with particular words (or regexp?) in its title for example?
I think there's not really much that can compete with VDR in terms of capability and flexibility. I had a quick look at MythTV at the time, and decided it's not what I want.
When you get VDR to work, I would be interested to hear your experiences. MythTV does have it shortcomings. MythTV development is a little slanted towards the US TV environment - some years ago, I asked if I could select a broadcast based on which languages the audio is available in (with DVB, you can have multiple languages, subtitles etc). At the time we had "The Big Bang" being broadcast daily in virtually every European language, and I had to tidy up recordings every day. With a large amount of channels (on satellite,,we're talking thousands), the rescheduling of recordings often takes quite long. In the minutes, which frequently causes a rescheduling to be re-started because EPG data changes, for instance. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.9°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org