Lars Olsson wrote:
I am a happy VDR user since a couple of years ago. Before VDR, I used Mythtv but switched due to its hardware requirements and bugs. My VDR is an (very) old Duron 700 MHz with 1 Technotrend FF card and 1 PVR 350 card. It has been no problem recording two channels (SD) at a time and watch a different recording trough FF card tv-out. FANTASTIC! The VDR box is soon going to be replaced by a faster machine, but will keep the current tv cards.
The problem is now to find out how to setup VDR on my new computer. Should I use
- FF-TVout?
- vdr-xine
- xine-liboutput?
By just reading this thread, I can see that people has different favourites. My personal fealing is that VDR is lacking recommendations / good documentation on how to setup/configure "TV-out" in the best way, or at least describe pros/cons for each alternative. Is this a point where Mythtv beats VDR? I hope that I am wrong. Or have I missed anything?
regards, baronen
That depends solely on your display device. If you use an "old style" CRT or something similar with an interlaced input, your FF-card will give you the best output. But if you have a progressive display with preferably a digital input you might want to use a software output device like vdr-xine or xineliboutput. Even with a reasonably slow system you can take advantage of vdpau with an nvidia card and have a perfect progressive output. There are graphic cards with both PCI and PCI-Express bus connection that you can acquire with a modest expense.
-Petri