> AFAIK LinVDR starts in 25 seconds, shuts down in 10. > Still not that fast, but I could live with that. > I use Debian rather than the LinVDR distribution. I'm not sure what the current version of LinVDR supports but when I last looked at it it didn't support my hardware very well. > The so called killer application. It has only one problem: its > proprietary. > There will always be people who will work on an open solution. > What makes it proprietary? XBMC is GPL'd and available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc/ If you are referring to the XBox hardware than that is no more proprietary than any of the DVB cards supported by Linux/VDR. If on the other hand you are referring to the development environment then you are abolsultely correct. However progress is being made to rectify this with OpenXDK (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxdk/). > To sum it up: you got yourself a proprietary solution and now you are > frustrated that VDR does not support it? > It's not as proprietary as you make it out to be and it's quite the opposite. I'm frustrated that it doesn't support VDR. I don't mention this on the XBMC forums because it is VDR users who stand to benefit the most and not XBMC users (at least that's my belief). > I do not know if any VDR to XBMC exists. You probably already asked > Google for it I assume. Somewhere rings a bell, but probably because > this XBMC question was asked before. > There's basically nothing but some attempts made in the past. as soon as I have the necessary software I may see if anything can be done about that. it seems to me that It should at least be possible to create a fully functional interface using python scripting and SVDRP. Live and recording replay is another story altogether. > Besides that I wonder if the XBox is really that much cheaper than an > epia board with small harddisk plus dvd rom. Wonder no more. You can get 2 XBox's for the price of an epia board with NO hard disj or DVD-Rom. You can get 2 Xbox's for the price of a single full featured DVB card. In fact you can get an XBox at about the same price as a decent Linux supported Budget DVB-T card. For the money I've spent trying to get a PC to do the job reasonably I could have had about 10 XBox's AND a VDR server with 4 budget DVB-T cards in it. Regards, Michal
