anthony hornby a ?crit : > Hi All, > I am currently using fedora core 3 as my VDR box and it has served me > reasonably well. > > However I have just switched from using Hauppauge Nova-T & Nova-S budget > cards with a Hollywood+ card and DXR3 plugin to using a Matrox G550 and > softdevice+DirectFB. > > I want a distro that has all the latest versions of plugins ( especially > femon, streamdev, remote, mplayer, dvd, softdevice) and latest > development releases of VDR + XDirectFB, DirectFB, DFB++ available as > packages that can be easily added /removed. > > I would also like it to be fast and the base OS to be stable and easy to > keep updated. > >>From what I have looked at so far Gentoo is looking pretty good. > > Any comments / suggestions ? Debian has a lot of good things too : * there are the e-tobi official VDR Debian packages : a whole lot of plugins, with support for testing, unstable, etc. a package branch for VDR 1.2.x and another for 1.3.x (vdr-devel) (http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr) * there is also Darren Salt's repositorie geared toward vdr-xine/CLE266 (http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html) * all that come with special packages for the Unichrome HW acceleration (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/debian/) * DirectFB come natively with the debian/ source directory, ready to build packages (I didn't look for binary repositories) * on the softdevice front, I have a debian/ source directory, but I don't maintain binaries, and since softdevice is not autoconf-driven, I have to modify the Makefile by hand before packaging, thus my package doesn't fill everyone's needs * I also use Christian Marillat's repository for stuff like ffmpeg-cvs (ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat) I could provide a source/binary repository for my Debain add-ons, but I won't keep it up-to-date, provide binaries for anything else that sarge (for the moment), etc. Thus no one would be able to rely on such a repository. Maybe I will finally do that, if people just want to get working Debian sarge binaries for softdevice and dependencies on EPIA (quite limitative). -- NH
