Hi,
We've been happily using VDR with a video projector for almost a year now without any problems. The projector gets a s-video signal from VDR using one of those "add-on" cards that plug into the J2 connector. S-video gives an ok but kinda blurry image. The card seems to be able to provide some kind of component signal too as it has an additional SCART-connector as a separate module, but we've never figured out how to get that one connected and as we've already burnt the J2 of one DVB card, we're a bit careful with anything connected to the J2 connector.
So, as s-video seems to be the best we can get out from the DVB cards we've looked at getting the image out using the normal video output of the system. The projector has an input for DVI/HDMI/VGA and the VDR system has DVI/VGA out, so it seems like that would be the best way to go to get a good image out, preferably avoiding any analog conversions along the way.
There seems to be two solutions that are currently used:
Softdevice http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Softdevice-plugin
Xine-plugin http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Xine-plugin
Those seem to be the best homepages for the plugins, but as I'm no native German speaker (I can order a beer, but that's about it) I have a fairly hard time grokking the finer details of pros and cons.
What do you others use when you want to get a good image from VDR? Which of those plugins is the preferable solution in this case? The system in use should cope just fine with some decoding done by the CPU. The system has a Sempron-something 2400+ and an ATI fanless 9250 card (I think it was).
Comments?