2009/12/25 Gerald Dachs vdr@dachsweb.de
Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100 schrieb Carsten Koch CarstenKochElsdorf@web.de:
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: ...
- I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)
system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk.
Couldn't you use a much lighter desktop if this is a PC especially for VDR?
Running VDR is important, but not the only purpose. Surfing the internet, watching DVDs and BlueRays, etc. is a lot of fun on an HD beamer. :-)
The desktop doesn't play DVDs or BlueRays. This is done by xineliboutput, xine and xbmc ... To start xbmc a lircrc skript for irexec would be enough. No need for a desktop.
Indeed, the only two applications running on desktop side would be X and the application which is your frontend, either xine or xineliboutput.
xineliboutput does have the advantage that it has a media menu built-in for alternative media. It can do things like watch dvd/iso/pictures/music/blu-ray/avi/wmv. The latest snapshot supports cropping when xineliboutput was set to use video vdpau. And you already have a nvidia machine.
Gerald