[vdr] Best Linux Distro for XDirectFB, DirectFB, softdevice? Slightly OT

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 ?