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From: PaulNM <gentoo@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:42:01
Message-Id: 44C19C4C.4050903@paulscrap.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR by Nick Rout
1 Nick Rout wrote:
2 > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700
3 > Ted Ozolins <ted1@×××××.net> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Nick Rout wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
8 >>> Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
9 >>>
10 >>>
11 >>>
12 >>>> Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
13 >>>> is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
14 >>>>
15 >>>> - Grant
16 >>>>
17 >>>>
18 >>> what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?
19 >>>
20 >>>
21 >>>
22 >>>> --
23 >>>> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
24 >>>>
25 >>>>
26 >>>>
27 >> http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/
28 >
29 > Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to "gentoo vdr"
30 >
31 > differences AFAIK:
32 >
33 > 1. VDR is for DVB only
34 >
35 > 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.
36 >
37 > 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR.
38 >
39
40 Hey all,
41 The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter:
42 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml
43
44 Has info about "The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project", with a link:
45 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/
46
47 The second link lists an irc channel as well.
48
49 HTH,
50 PaulNM
51 --
52 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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