On 30 July 2010 15:40, Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:17:23 +0200 Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgieter@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 July 2010 21:55, Morfsta morfsta@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't it about time that VDR had a native out of the box plugin for X11 output with H264 acceleration? There's so many problems with having xine or xinelibout plugins developed by 3rd parties and relying on syncing up with xine etc...
Like the softdevice plugin?
I think the point is the OP wants it to be built in to VDR instead of a plugin. Personally I don't have a problem with having to use a plugin for display, provided it's well supported and closely tracks core VDR development. But I use the Debian packages (based on VDR 1.6 and xine 1.1) so I don't know how much hassle this causes when trying to use the bleeding edge. It would be nice to have BBC HD and ITV HD if I could be bothered to put in the effort. There are some unofficial VDR 1.7 debian packages, but there seem to be about 3 sets, so what to choose? Something more official in Debian's "experimental" section would be nice.
I would get far more involved with VDR, particularly the Debian side of things, but I decided some time ago it would never be quite the program I want (nor are mythtv, freevo or gnome-dvb-daemon) and I'd rather write my own rival, so I wouldn't be able to commit long term to maintaining VDR plugins and packages.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would be backwards to VDR's roadmap. VDR has now also moved the hardware output devices to be a plugin.
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