great English howto
HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.7 Howto http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1126258
Could you please both detail a bit the DVB sources, software versions, plugins, patches, etc. related to HD, that you actually use now ? (DVB-T, DVB-S or S2, DVB kernel patches, VDR core, xineliboutput or xine plugin, xinelib patches...)
I use DVB-S sources on VDR-1.7.7 with just basic plugins and xine-vdpau (r260). No special patches are needed for/to anything although I do use vdr-1.7.3-ntsc-fps.diff which changes the default framespersecond to 30.0 (NTSC) instead of 25.0 (PAL), although I've heard this is not necessary now that VDR uses mpeg-ts. It's really straight forward.
Maybe there is an english howto somewhere ?
There are english forums at:
http://dvbn.happysat.org (they have a linux specific forum there which is very active) http://www.hoochvdr.info (good howtos but not actively kept up anymore _I think_)
vdrportal looks like a good forum but as already pointed out, it's in German and thus practically useless for all of us english-speaking users.