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
