Re: [vdr] The issue of orphaned plugins, addons and patches (Re: pvr-input)

2008-06-23 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, 1) too many vdr-related projects dying or being orphaned when the original author looses interest In most cases, its probably not just loosing interest, but running out of time. Handling a job, a family and a time-consuming hobby all at once is nearly impossible... Yes, but what

[vdr] new videocard from ATI with hardware decoding of HD video - UVD2

2008-06-23 Thread Goga777
Hi AMD/ATI released new videocard HD4850 (RV770 processor) with new UVD2 - unifed video decoder. There's good chanses for support hdtv decoding video in Linux open source. BTW - in open radeon/xf86-video-ati driver there's support for this card

Re: [vdr] new videocard from ATI with hardware decoding of HD video -UVD2

2008-06-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Timothy D. Lenz schrieb: ATI is not known for good driver support in Linux You should really take look what has happened in this direction recently. They release a new AMD Catalyst (fglrx) driver every month, and it gets better and better, while more and more specs are released to FLOSS driver

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epg2timers 1.5.2a.

2008-06-23 Thread Manfred Schmidt-Voigt
Carsten Koch schrieb: epg2timers is a tool that allows you to use the web EPG at http://tvtv.de to program VDR from anywhere in the world simply by clicking on the things you want vdr to record in the http://tvtv.de listings. I apologize for being kind of slow in developing epg2timers

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epg2timers 1.5.2a.

2008-06-23 Thread Carsten Koch
Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: ... My question: Are there any plans to support also the extended information like actor, director, year of first appearence, etc? We can get these infos just by setting jl_format=3, but it's not decoded by epg2timer.cxx. Sounds like an interesting idea. No, I