On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 21:20 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Saturday 24 November 2007, David Timms wrote:
> 3. DVB recording packages:
> AFAIK, a package that can record {not playback} a DVB stream would meet
> F guidelines. In fact it can be as simple as using tzap {dvb-apps} and
> cat to record dvb programs.
>
> Perhaps a split-up mythtv package that can record analog and digital
> content, but optionally playback mpeg streams {live, recorded, delayed}
> only if non Fedora parts are installed would be possible. This could
> also help to support both analog capture cards and digital cards with
> built-in mpeg decoders out of the box in a great TV app.
vdr which is already in Fedora should be able to do all that. I haven't
tested running it without an MPEG capable output device, but I suppose it
will require some manual tweaking (channels.conf, remote controller
keybindings) and isn't very user friendly in that sense. But once it's
running, for example vdradmin-am can be used to control it if its OSD is not
available.
This is exactly what I've been doing for the past few months. I'm using
xine for playback of the 001.vdr files. I miss the vdr-xine integration
but can still use the shell to delete old recordings.
I've had VDR setup for a few years with a DXR3 card so configuration was
done already. It would be tricky to setup from scratch like this.
Jon