and what routes do you see as most viable?
Well this sounds the best option for full VDR front-end if recordings work as well..
Having the full frontend will also bring all the plugin flexibility back to the NMT :o) And recording/cutting/marks/realtime EPG/time shifting...
Yes, I gave my vote for vdr-fbfe if playback works with hardware.. :) But I realize that due to last minute edit of my mail you could read that I gave my vote for VDR-UI. I don't like VDR-UI - it does not show channels if there
is no EPG, and you need to use menus to switch channels, no recordings etc...
+1 pch-vdr-fbfe :)
- Jori