[vdr] Re: vdr and TTUSB Budget

[<david.thompson@magharl.co.uk>]

Thank you so much for the advice ...  Will check out the postings and try
out vdr-xine.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Onno" <onnok@web.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: vdr and TTUSB Budget


> Hi,
>
> vdr is not a media player, so it has no built in sw-mpeg2 decoder,
> so if you use a nova card instead of a nexus (to speak in haupauge terms)
> you need some mpeg2 decoder, which can be a DXR3-mpeg2 PCI card (30€
ebay),
> or the new vdr-xine (software X11) plugin, so vdr has a primary device
> to output it's osd (the user interface).
> this is regardless of the dvb-input device, which can even be a analog
> tv-card using a sw-mpeg-encoder plugin or a network stream from an other
vdr.
>
> so look on this list in the past few days there have been several people
> claiming success with the vdr-xine pluign.
>
> Regads Onno
>
> david.thompson@magharl.co.uk schrieb:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have finally gotten my Nova-T USB to work in Linux and have been
> > watching tele using Xine for the past couple of weeks.
> >
> > However, I would really like to get VDR to work and I am having
problems.
> >
> > I have tried installing several versions of VDR (CVS and specific SuSE
> > 8.2 builds) and have had success with none of them.
> >
> > Since I am using the ttusb, I am having to use the DVB-Kernel drivers
> > and not standard DVB...
> >
> > The error I receive is that VDR can find no primary device...
> >
> > Do you have any advice for me...
> >
> > I greatly appreciate it and am also trying to put together a helpful
> > how-to guide for Nova-T USB users so that they can set up their in hours
> > and not months as I has taken me! :-)
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > David Thompson
>
>
>
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