Jed <jedi.theone@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Just curious, why did you pick VDR over MythTV? > I would rather use the later + OSCam (maybe) if feasible. It's mostly because I had no experience with either and tried VDR first. And then I never got around to trying MythTV. I don't know if MythTV would fit. Probably would. My impression was that it was mainly targeted at media portal + analogue TV while VDR was made for live DVB from the start, which was why I trid VDR first. One of my requirements was that I could tune to any channel by simply accessing a streaming URL, i.e. without touching any portal at all. I started my small project mainly because I have ethernet around the house but not coax, and I got a request for live TV two floors away from the nearest coax cable. VDR with the streamdev plugin turned out to be an excellent headless streaming server. It is perfectly suitable for the more primitive streaming display devices, like popcornhour boxes or TV sets with ethernet, which are great for watching live streams but suck when it comes to portal "browsing". One application I looked at initially was mumudvb, since it is targeted towards live streaming. I must admit that I liked the idea of just multicasting all channels all the time, but unfortunately that would have required 7 or 8 tuners just to get the "free" channels from my cable operator. Which of course would be out of the question even if dual DVB-C cards existed. And more HD channels are probably going to make this even more difficult. And I really won't have more than a couple of channel "consumers" anyway so it would most certainly be way overkill. But fun though :-) Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
