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[vdr] Re: Vdr, MediaMVP and divx..



What about this?

http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/

It's on the plugin page...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <andreas.holzhammer@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:20 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Vdr, MediaMVP and divx..


> you may want to have a look at the mediaMVP board at
> http://www.shspvr.com/forum/index.php
>
> they are working on various projects, but most effort currently seems to
> go into the MythTV direction (unfortunately).
> I own a MediaMVP myself and would like to use it as a VDR frontend, but
> this seems to still take some time
>
> Andreas
>
> Nigel Magnay schrieb:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been looking at vdr and have it running very nicely on a linux
> > box that sits up in my loft. Currently I have a PC in my lounge that I
> > use to play captured TV and DivX files that I have compressed.
> >
> > What I would like to be able to do is replace the noisy PC with
> > not-very-good TV card output with a MediaMVP box, and use that (with the
> > vdr plugin) to play *all* of my video content (I.E : all the DivX stuff
> > too).
> >
> > I'm attracted to the idea rather than buying, say, a KISS DVD player
> > (that supports networked DivX) because of the openness of the VDR
> > software and the ability to add plugins, plus the possibility that I
> > could use the DVR for a 'pause Live TV' type functionality...
> >
> > Before I shell out on the Hauppauge kit (I have had really bad
> > experiences with their software so I want to check first) - is this
> > setup possible, particularly the runtime transcoding to MPEG2 to get
> > divx to play? Is anyone on this list doing this? What is the quality
> > like? What are the disadvantages or is there anything else that I should
> > consider?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nigel
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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