I've been running VDR for a while now with a FF card and a bunch of dvb-t cards as a standalone system- its works great even the wife cant live without it now ;-) Thanks to everyone especially Klaus for this great software.
I want to use another TV with VDR and I was thinking of creating two remote clients and converting my existing vdr server into a headless streaming server, it looks like the xineliboutput plugin seems to provide the best solution combined with a mini-itx board like the epia sp 1300 (I watch a bunch of xvids) but I have some questions that I hope soneone can help me with:
Can the two remote clients act independently to each other, with full osd? Can timers be scheduled from the remote clients? How reliable is this setup? Is there a better solution?
Thanks Jonathan
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:58:16 +0100 Jon jon@jonandlou.co.uk wrote:
Can the two remote clients act independently to each other, with full osd?
Nope :/ VDR would require major re-engineering to be a 'multi head' system. As it stands, xineliboutput works by being the primary device, so if you have an FF card and run xineliboutput, your FF card output goes blank and the video/OSD appears only via xineliboutput...
The only current solution for such a system is running one copy of VDR with streamdev-server, then another copy for each client, with each client using streamdev-client. Timers can be scheduled, but it'll require a bit of UNIX magic / cron scripts etc.
How reliable is this setup?
I've never put together such a system, but my rule-of-thumb experiences with streamdev would say it was 'usable, but a bit shaky'.. If anyone has positive results, by all means post here and document the setup / versions, etc. :)
Is there a better solution?
If there is, I'd love to hear it! The Hauppauge MediaMVP boxes might be a better solution since they run completely under their own plugin. I haven't checked plugin / driver support for those in a while now...
Cheers, Gavin.
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Jon