[vdr] Re: Hardware planning : VDR + EPIA-M + budget DVB

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Luca Olivetti wrote:

>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
>>>Since I currently don't have an epia board, wouldn't all of the above
>>>(and more) possible with a dreambox (except for the dvd burning, but
>>>that can be done on another machine)?
>>
>>
>> I've used a DM7000 for a while, and it wasn't too nice. Buggy, ugly UI,
>> easy to crash and just a bit unreliable. VDR is far, far more stable IMHO.
>> But it is a nice hacking target and there's plenty of instructions on the
>> web for that.
>
>If the unreliability depends on hardware, there's not much I can do (but
>I read that the new version of the dreambox has a better power supply),
>but if it depends on software maybe it's possible to use vdr[*] instead
>of enigma, after all it's just a linux pc (even if it's a different
>architecture).

I meant general software unreliability. The hardware is actually quite
nice, although it gets a bit hot.

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