[vdr] vdr without full-featured DVB-Card

[Christian Bodenstedt <c.bodenstedt@cityweb.de>]

Hi,

I own a WinTV Nova (budged DVB-S) card and use vdr 1.1.20 combined with
vdradmin to program recordings of TV-MPEG2-Streams. I'm not interested in
playback on a TV, i just want to watch the recorded streams on the PC's
monitor. For most of the recordings i'm able to play them with mplayer by
hand wich  

But how about the playback-abilities of vdr for the PC-monitor? I found
kvdr but afaik it uses the full-featured cards hardware-overlay functions
to display videos on the monitor. On this list I read about an
mplayer-plugin - is it designed to send all video-output of vdr to the
monitor or does it just 'transcode' other videoformats to MPEG2 to allow
playback via the MPEG2-decoder hardware of the full-featured DVB-cards? If
it's made for the first case, how about vdrs osd? 

I also heared that an MPEG-4 capable decoder-card from Sigma-Desings would
be supported by vdr. Did anyone made some experiences with such a card and
is it compatible with xvid-encoded movies?


Thanks for your answers,

Christian Bodenstedt

btw: why are there so many broken threads on this mailinglist?


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