[vdr] Re: Distributed VDR

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 04:19, Jan Grell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I like to vote for such an command-line-option.
> > Is this a big change in the code  / or your concept of vdr?
> > Are there more people who can imagine to have such an hardware-configuration
> > with two machines?
> 
> I could imagine several clients (living room, sleeping room, office etc.) which
> could use a central media (video, mp3 etc.) server.
> Are there other (possibly cheaper) MPEG2-Decoders which could run in the
> clients? (Without DVB receiver; for rooms without satellite cabling)

There are MPEG2-Decoders - like the dxr3.  There is even the beginnings
of implementing the DVB driver API for this in the DVB cvs. (currently
the drivers arround use their own driver API).  I don't know how far
along the driver is.

> These clients could also run diskless, much quieter though.
> 
> Regards,
> Jan
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