Hi list,
I am currently running MythTV in my box but very seriously considering moving over to the VDR camp, mainly because of the strange and hostinle climate on the Myth developer list/community.
Just spend some time reading the VDR list and this seems to work a lot better and chacking the software it also seems to be a lot more modular and well built.
Anyway I wonder if there are anyone here that have made this "jump" and can tell me what I am going to miss and what I will like before I take the big step.
Best Regards Dag
Dag Nygren a écrit :
Hi list,
I am currently running MythTV in my box but very seriously considering moving over to the VDR camp, mainly because of the strange and hostinle climate on the Myth developer list/community.
Just spend some time reading the VDR list and this seems to work a lot better and chacking the software it also seems to be a lot more modular and well built.
Anyway I wonder if there are anyone here that have made this "jump" and can tell me what I am going to miss and what I will like before I take the big step.
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).
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.
Damien
O Sábado 04 de Marzo de 2006 ás 14:20, Dag dicía:
Anyway I wonder if there are anyone here that have made this "jump" and can tell me what I am going to miss and what I will like before I take the big step.
Here are some of my opinions:
- Channel changes in LiveTV are much faster in VDR (MythTV with DVB-T is painful, and I think this still applies to 0.19) It's also more reliable (MythTV 0.18 often crashed when zapping a lot, I don't know if it's better now) - LiveTV is not recorded to disk in VDR, unless you pause it. This means you can't say "I missed that one, let's go back and see it again" as with MythTV. - Programming recordings is easier in VDR, especially for non-tech users. It's not so heavily epg-oriented as MythTV. This is good for countries like Spain where you can't trust the epg timetables. - You have DVB radios in VDR, I think they're not yet available in MythTV.
And about the plugins:
- No (dis)advantages on watching DVDs, and the same for DivX/etc if you use xineplayer from xine plugin (it needs no reencoding) - VDR doesn't compare to MythTV for viewing images. This is the reason why I still stick to MythTV, as my parents spend a lot of time viewing photos. I use MythTV for this, and VDR for everything else.
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