Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
