Personnaly, I switched to vdr since dvb-t was launched in my area and Mythtv (0.18) disapointed me : slow channel changing, no signal monitoring, buggy support for hardware mpeg2 decoding (nvidia).
Hi Damien, and thanks for taking your time to give me some hints.
The slow channel is still there in 0.19. Signal monitoring is there now, hardware mpeg2 might work now but there is still a very negative atmosphere in the Myth community, which bothers me a lot.
So I adopted vdr and I'm quite happy with it :
- much better picture with a dxr3 card that is well supported by vdr
- very light software (no X11 no mysql needed)
- simpler OSD than MythTV (which was too computerish for my wife).
- regular updates.
Now there is Mythtv 0.19 which seems to be a major update and fixes many of the points above. But I don't regret my choice and I will go vdr for a while.
Thanks for that, I will see when I get the time to compile VDR and the wanted/needed plugins. Among others I need o display the picture through X11 on my not that good VGA card (ProSavage8).
I guess transferring the recorded programs from Myth is a nobrainer as hey are in MPG format now.
Dag
I guess transferring the recorded programs from Myth is a nobrainer as hey are in MPG format now.
Yes, they can be directly read with mplayer through a vdr's plugin, or be converted with nuvexport.
But I still don't know whether there is a tool to convert a mythtv recording to the native vdr format, for example :
/video/<Name of the recording>/2006-03-05.21.48.50.99.rec/ 001.vdr 002.vdr index.vdr info.vdr
Does somebody know how ?
Damien
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:09:46 +0100 Damien Bally biribi@free.fr wrote:
I guess transferring the recorded programs from Myth is a nobrainer as hey are in MPG format now.
Yes, they can be directly read with mplayer through a vdr's plugin, or be converted with nuvexport.
But I still don't know whether there is a tool to convert a mythtv recording to the native vdr format, for example :
/video/<Name of the recording>/2006-03-05.21.48.50.99.rec/ 001.vdr 002.vdr index.vdr info.vdr
Does somebody know how ?
I think ProjectX has both VDR input and output support, but I don't know if the output actually works. If it does, conversion from (almost) any other MPEG-1/2 container format should be possible.
--Niko
Niko Mikkila wrote:
I think ProjectX has both VDR input and output support, but I don't know if the output actually works. If it does, conversion from (almost) any other MPEG-1/2 container format should be possible.
It works quite well, there's just a small bug in vdr folder creation. ProjectX creates folders like 2006-03-07.19.28.36.881.rec, where VDR only accepts exactly 2-digit numbers for prio and lifetime. After renaming to something like 2006-03-07.19.28.50.50.rec, they work.
Cheers,
Udo
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