Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
When you get VDR to work, I would be interested to hear your experiences. MythTV does have it shortcomings.
Well, it's not that it isn't working - that permission thing is only a cosmetic detail needed for running it without mouse/keyboard. I'm using vdr since 2006 :)
Aha. Even better.
It does have nice features (also) for live view (timeshift, epg browsers etc) but I mostly use it for recording, (automatic) detection of advertising blocks and then watching after cutting those out....
Pretty much the same here. 98% recording, 2% live TV - news and such. I don't use the automatic detection of ads, ISTR having problems with it in the beginning. Also, it doesn't work for HD.
MythTV development is a little slanted towards the US TV environment -
VDR rather is german centered (but that should be fine for Switzerland, no?)
Yep, that would be fine. Well, it depends, but a more European outlook would be useful. With MythTV, the lack of audio language selection and the minor inability to really cope with thousands of channels is, well, a slight nuisance.
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.
VDR does have quite some powerful epg/scheduling plugins. If you do have some DVB hardware around I'd suggest having a look at MLD (www.minidvblinux.de) or yaVDR (www.yavdr.org), they do give a very easy start. They are Debian/Ubuntu based though. I do prefer to run on opensuse basis and thus compile myself...
I would like to have a look, but I struggle to find the time to play with it. It's bad enough with mythtv. What kind of frontend do you use with VDR? For MythTV, the Raspi seems to be gaining popularity, the H264 decoder is apparently easily fast enough for HD without stutter/jitter. I'm very tempted to try out a Raspi next time (when I finally upgrade). I don't know if you have this - on British telly, a couple of years ago, they started adding a 10min break into movies, right in the middle. Some blurb about the latest movie news or whatever. This means a movie will now have two sections, the first and the last. In the EPG, the two sections are the same - title, subtitle, description. This genuinely screws up a lot recordings. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.9°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org