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Funnily I'm also currently trying MLD :-)
So with MLD on the RPi 3 you used the VDR OSD oder Kodi?

MLD is a dedicated version of VDR, and only VDR. So you have a full VDR OSD interface. Some other interfaces exist to make the setup. I'd like to have the full VDR interface. But the distribution is minimal and it's not like a standard Linux distribution.

Please, give me the results of your tests.

 

I don't know what the backup-, NFS-, etc. stuff has to do with this issue but I'd recommend an OpenMediaVault (OMV) system for that, possibly installing UrBack Client on the RPi if that's possible to automatically back that up onto the OMV machine.

OpenMediaVault is a very good solution to build a NAS. You can use RAID to manage the disks, useful when a disk crash. But if the server for the NAS crash, you temporally loose all. It's like if you have a 'node' that it used as a NAS. It's one point of failure.

For me, the advantage of GlusterFS is to have many 'node' used as NAS. The minimum is 2 nodes. Like this, if a node crash, you have always a NAS usable. You can have many nodes. There is several mode of replication of your data, comparable to the RAID methods. An other advantage, is I can extend as I want the capacity of each node with any type of disks.

I find interesting to have a standard system to use all package of the Linux distribution used. With LibreElec or MLD for example, the number of packages is smaller, for a distribution, LVM wasn't available.

Thank you for 'UrBack', I keep this in mind. I doesn't know it.
 

It's true that inside the Kodi GUI you can't edit VDR records and it also lacks many other features compared to using VDR from it's own frontend.

I like VDR's frontend. Some features are present in commercial TV recorder. But it's a very powerful solution.
 

So you could turn another PC into an HTPC running VDR or you could just install VDR onto a PC that runs a usual Linux desktop environment. It does not need to have it's own tuners if you don't want to and a real physical tuner is also not needed anymore for VDR installation since there are plugins like IPTV, SatIP etc. that act as the tuner.

Install VDR on my Debian it's my next task. But, I'don't know if all features like editing the video are available. The interface seems very different. I found the explications very hard to found/understand to have the full VDR's interface or if it's even possible. I've understand that the window manager must be stop and X11 conserved or used the framebuffer ... My knowledge of the installation of VDR is not good, I try to master this subject ;-) Some interesting information that I found was in German, normal, but when I use Google Translate I obtain some surprising things sometimes.

 

For lossless cutting outside of VDR check out https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
Let me tell you though that nothing is more comfortable than editing recordings via VDR's OSD. I use VDR since 2003 and I'm still amazed how well and easy the editing works, even if it just lets you cut at key-frames or whatever they are called. The only thing I'm really missing is throwing away certain soundtracks that you don't want to keep. With that I guess I'd save 2 TB of space.

I've tried it under Debian on a TS file recorded with LibreElec/Kodi/VDR during one half of hour. If there is only one sequence it's good, but with three parts it doesn't ... Some time to spend to understand the soft and how use it.  Here too, any help will be appreciate :-)

 

I hope this posting was a little bit helpful at least.

*EDIT regarding Uatschitchun's comment that was posted while I was typing* Avidemux is also a very well known tool. I used that and LosslessCut for certain recordings I had from Enigma2 DVB-receivers, but I can't remember which was easier to use. IIRC Avidemux can do a lot and therefor might be more tricky in terms of usage.

Yes, very helpful :-)