From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G4Syk-0005LF-7k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:41:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6N1dpxE021580; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:39:51 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer2.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6N1YBTD014791 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:34:12 GMT Received-SPF: none Received: from rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with SMTP id k6N1Y4qR020142 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:34:07 +1200 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:33:51 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR Message-Id: <20060723133351.0e3ccc1b.nick@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060722151818.9df030a8.hilse@web.de> References: <49bf44f10607210815p482461f6gb404e31751f617d1@mail.gmail.com> <20060722143733.89c7d5a1.nick@rout.co.nz> <44C19270.7010508@telus.net> <20060722151931.00b1f8fb.nick@rout.co.nz> <20060722151818.9df030a8.hilse@web.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 8237525f-6415-4ce8-8a90-70859d96b3a0 X-Archives-Hash: 7348f74056ed430668a51253702f25f5 On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:18:18 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 > Nick Rout 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