[vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 02/03/08 12:27, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> On 02/03/08 11:43, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote:
>>> No. The current features in 1.5.14 are still missing some essential key
>>> features that should be included in the next stable version: DVB
>>> subtitling (still missing component type support for the hard of
>>> hearing), EBU subtitling, native channels.conf support for pseudo DVB
>>> devices (pvrinput, iptv, analogtv), and multiple channel lists.
>> I am not going to deal with these things before DVB-S2/H.264, anyway.
>>
>> Klaus
> 
> I've been using VDR for about a year and a half now and it's great. But with 
> all due respect, I think you're doing this the wrong way around. At least 
> here in Finland, decent DVB subtitles support is pretty much the only thing 
> VDR needs to be usable out-of-the-box with the free channels we have.
> 
> In my opinion DVB-S2/H.264 are "nice to have" extra features, but working DVB 
> subtitling support is a "must have" feature for PVR software like VDR, 
> because almost everyone needs DVB subtitles around here, but not that many 
> watch HDTV channels yet.

Which version of VDR are you using?

The current developer version does have DVB subtitling support.

Klaus