[gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

[gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

[Grant]

Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
is?  Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.

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

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
> is?  Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
> 
> - Grant

what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?

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

[Ted Ozolins]

Nick Rout wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
>Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
>>is?  Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
>>
>>- Grant
>>    
>>
>
>what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?
>
>  
>
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http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/

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

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700
Ted Ozolins <ted1@telus.net> wrote:

> Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
> >Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
> >>is?  Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
> >>
> >>- Grant
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?
> >
> >  
> >
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> >>    
> >>
> http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/

Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to "gentoo vdr"

differences AFAIK:

1. VDR is for DVB only 

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.

3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR.

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

[PaulNM]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700
> Ted Ozolins <ted1@telus.net> wrote:
> 
>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
>>> Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
>>>> is?  Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>>    
>>>>
>>> what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
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>>>>
>> http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/
> 
> Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to "gentoo vdr"
> 
> differences AFAIK:
> 
> 1. VDR is for DVB only 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR.
> 

Hey all,
The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml

Has info about "The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project", with a link:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/

The second link lists an irc channel as well.

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

[Richard Fish]

On 7/21/06, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
> Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
> > is?  Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
> >
> > - Grant
>
> what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/

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

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:32:28 -0400
PaulNM <gentoo@paulscrap.com> wrote:


> Hey all,
> The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter:
> http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml
> 
> Has info about "The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project", with a link:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/
> 
> The second link lists an irc channel as well.
> 
> HTH,
> 	PaulNM

I take it all back!

thanks for the link!

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

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.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.


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

[Nick Rout]

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

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

> 
> 
> -hwh
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