Hi, just curious as I have a Rasp running Openelec and xbmc.
What advantages does this software have over the stuff I am using?
My answer would be smaller/lightweight, fast, low system requirements, no extra junk you may not want/need/use. VDR provides core functionality and plugins provide the extras you might want. It costs almost no resources to run VDR + mplayer plugin + mpv-player. With that I have a full tv/dvr/media player but without any bloat or sql mess, etc.