[mythtv-users] Anybody Ever Tried VDR?

[Kenneth Aafløy]

Philippe Daoust wrote:

> I'm thinking of setting up a second PVR that would directly 
> connect to my
> Satelitte dish (i.e., without having to use a seperate 
> receiver and analog
> capture card).  Given that DVB support seems to still be 
> preliminary in Myth
> (also no CAM support) and that I wanted a Linux based 
> solution, I thought I
> would give VDR a try (http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/index.htm).

I use a Conax CAM with MythTV...and it's working very well here (the DVB
stuff that is, my epia is another story).

> Although it is very from from being as sexy as Myth is, there 
> are tons of
> plugins that can various things via a full featured DVB card 
> (read with a HW
> encoder).

Yea, that part would need some coding.

> Most of the users seem to be in Europe (mostly Germany) but I 
> just thought
> I'd ask around to see if anyone had anything good or bad to 
> say about it.

And you would be using it in the US of A, I think there are some dvb
users in the us here, or did thay flee?

Kenneth