Hi!
But there are more people like Klaus who are quite happy with hardware decoding, and I am grateful he works the way he does.
Hear, hear... Thankfully no need for totally bloated X-stuff or framebuffers or such.. Just plain minimal text/consolebased system. VDR _is_ just a Set-Top-Box
I too like the hardware based solution over one using software only, at least it was always easier to install and maintain ....
It turns out that I have to upgrade my VDR System now as my FF DVB Card has a burned video-out (too much red) and the plain-homebrew-1:1-j2-scart-adapter do no longer work with my new LCD-TV: http://l3x.net/~im/pics/IMG_4250.JPG http://l3x.net/~im/pics/IMG_4251.JPG http://l3x.net/~im/pics/IMG_4252.JPG
Not really good pictures, but notice the black pixel-errors ....
The question is now, what do do next: a) Buy the AVBoard and hope that its circuits allow better pictures again (~60 €) b) Upgrade the VDR System to DVB-S2 (~500€ at least for Motherboard, CPU, Memory, DVB-S2 with CI and a graphic-card with DVI/HDMI) c) Buy a Kathrein UFS-910 (~350€ with CAM) The next firmware should allow recording to external USB HDD too.
As it is currently it seems setting up a VDR System for DVB-S2 is not that easy as it was with a DVB-S FF system. Yesterday I tried to use xineliboutput (SD, not HD for sure) to workaround my bad picture problem, but the plain xine is to slow on my old VIA EPIA (cle266) system and I really think compiling the enhanced VIA version will become a pain ... not even sure if any of the xine plugins are compatible to it.
Well, I am definitely unsure ... thus whining here, sorry. I wanted to fell this decision not before approx 6 month .... Thus, a seems odd as it is a lot of money too ... and I can't reuse it then.
Any suggestions what to do now?
BTW: Congrats to Klaus! Great work! VDR was/IS always a pleasure. What about porting VDR to the Kathrein :-)
Ciao, Mario