Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:18:18 +0200
Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200
> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> 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.

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