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PVR For Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that's-impressive dept.

amix writes "After two years of hard work the final 1.0 of VDR (Video Disk Recorder) has been released under the GPL. VDR is Linux based VCR software for digital TV cards (DVB, the Linux driver supports cable, sat and terrestrial cards), the new TV standard in Europe and also in use at several places in the United States. VDR is a fully networkable digital video recorder (implemented as daemon on port 2001) with optional MP3, DVD and 'MPlayer' based video-codec replay plus much more. It features "timeshifting", an incredibly comfortable OSD, functions to make editing/cleaning-up the streams easier and is controllable by LIRC, keyboard, telnet/ssh, WWW (cgi) or dedicated utilities. It can be used natively on a TV, with standard v4l tools or the KVDR KDE frontend.. You have an old PC? Add one (up to four) DVB card and you got a cheap multimedia center. Here are the screenshots. " A very impressive project indeed.

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  1. BetaMax by Yoda2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But does it support BetaMax & LaserDisc?

  2. Great product by qurob · · Score: 2, Funny


    I did just pay $49 for this 4 head VCR over at Circuit City...

    1. Re:Great product by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 3, Funny

      One day, I went to watch one of my DVDs,and it was missing from it's case. I asked the kids if one of them had taken it, and they said no. So I looked around, couldn't find it. Over the next few days, I found various DVDs missing from their cases; wierd ones, too. No pattern. Stuff like the second disc from a two disc set, a Disney movie, Ghost Dog, random discs. Couldn't find them. Then, a few days later, my wife calls me at work, having solved the mystery. She'd come out of the kitchen, and watched my (then) youngest daughter, about a year old, take a DVD out of it's case, put the case back on the rack, toddle over to the computer, and slide the disc into the crack between the top of the DVD-ROM and the computer chassis. Told her to open the chassis and check, and sure enough, there's about five discs crammed into the drive bay. Fortunately, none were damaged.

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  3. Re:DMCA? by dongkiru · · Score: 2, Funny

    How long 'til the site recovers from being slashdotted so I can actually get it?

  4. Re:Slashdotted already by 0xB · · Score: 5, Funny

    For screenshots just turn on your TV.

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  5. Re:Google Cash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google Cash? is that anything like Flooz?

  6. Re:Impressive - but how does it compare? by Yarn · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's terrible. This fat tongued posh kid pretending to be cockney.

    More Info

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  7. Re:how long... by jargoone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't VCRs permit easy sharing of shows?

    Yes, so long as you have the magic protocol which can transmit a video tape across fiber.

  8. sweet... by graveyhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is exactly what I've been looking for for my massive media closet project.

    The idea is to build a tivo-like device for rich people with terrabytes of storage, so you don't have to delete shows when you are done if you don't want to. It would be attached to 200 DVD and 200 CD changers. When the user buys a new CD or DVD, they pop it in the media closet.

    Each individual TV would have a dumb terminal machine that connects to the closet server via bluetooth networking. Video would be streamed on demand from the server closet to any one of the remote terminals.

    The remote control would be a Palm V, also with bluetooth networking. A unified interface would control access to all media including recorded TV shows, all DVDs and all CDs.

    The audio component would be similar to what many people have in their homes currently, with speaker wire running through the walls.

    Now, anyone have about $50000 venture capitol for me so I can build the prototype? :-)

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