Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was reffering to a software rather than a project and wants a comparision. I'm running VDR, but not the Gentoo ebuild but rather compiled directly from source (all dependencies done by Gentoo, though). differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only Yes. But there are plugins to make it work with analog tv, too. See all those plugins in media-plugins/vdr-*, I think at least the analogtv and pvr* plugins are made for this. 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. That's true. And I think there are still some minor glitches w/ regard to PAL/NTSC (PAL is default). 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page is probably the most comprehensive documentation in english language. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:18:18 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was reffering to a software rather than a project and wants a comparision. I'm running VDR, but not the Gentoo ebuild but rather compiled directly from source (all dependencies done by Gentoo, though). differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only Yes. But there are plugins to make it work with analog tv, too. See all those plugins in media-plugins/vdr-*, I think at least the analogtv and pvr* plugins are made for this. 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. That's true. And I think there are still some minor glitches w/ regard to PAL/NTSC (PAL is default). 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page is probably the most comprehensive documentation in english language. Thank you for your informative post. We are PAL here too in New Zealand. We are about to get a DVB-T and DVB-S freeview digital tv network (sometime in the next year). I will be carefully evaluating VDR, but it might take a bit to move me off mythtv. Cheers. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. Hey all, The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml Has info about The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project, with a link: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/ The second link lists an irc channel as well. HTH, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On 7/21/06, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/ -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:32:28 -0400 PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml Has info about The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project, with a link: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/ The second link lists an irc channel as well. HTH, PaulNM I take it all back! thanks for the link! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
