One "problem" with vdr is that it is not obvious from this list when people are just happy and thing are just working fine.
Maybe such success stories are posted to the VDR portal/forum. But that is mostly in German, so not obvious to us English speakers. (Lack of German is failing on our part, I am sure, but so things are).
People only post to this list when things are wrong, so things like software decoding, vdpau etc etc seems difficult and next to impossible.
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 21:42 -0700, VDR User wrote:
VDR + hdtv has been pretty stable for me for some time now. The few problems I ran into (with VDPAU) were quickly fixed by the xine-vdpau devs. I'm not the only one either, I know a bunch of guys doing the same. It's a highly discussed topic and I'm honestly surprised to hear someone suggest it's in an unstable/crashing/unusable state. My experience has been basically the opposite of that. I would recommend you make sure to have a nice good signal, proper configurations, etc.
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