2009-02-11, 20:17
@philter:
VDR uses xine for vdapu decoding - the xbmc implementation uses streamdev-server and probably just passes on the undecoded stream to XBMC, so any hd decoding has to be done xbmc side I would say.
@megacrypto:
Your Nexus should work out of the box with a not even so recent kernel but you might need a newer version if you want to use the VDR 1.7 developer releases (although I don't know why you would - it's under heavy development and primarily intended for HDTV). As long as the needed plugins (should actually only be streamdev with the xbmc patch) work with an older vdr version there shouldn't be that much work involved.
At anybody who knows: what does the streamdev patch exactly do ? Is it needed for playback of recordings ? If not, is it essential ? I have a pretty old vdr version running on a settop box and don't really want to do any patching on that machine and recompiling - and I don't need direct access to recordings.
VDR uses xine for vdapu decoding - the xbmc implementation uses streamdev-server and probably just passes on the undecoded stream to XBMC, so any hd decoding has to be done xbmc side I would say.
@megacrypto:
Your Nexus should work out of the box with a not even so recent kernel but you might need a newer version if you want to use the VDR 1.7 developer releases (although I don't know why you would - it's under heavy development and primarily intended for HDTV). As long as the needed plugins (should actually only be streamdev with the xbmc patch) work with an older vdr version there shouldn't be that much work involved.
At anybody who knows: what does the streamdev patch exactly do ? Is it needed for playback of recordings ? If not, is it essential ? I have a pretty old vdr version running on a settop box and don't really want to do any patching on that machine and recompiling - and I don't need direct access to recordings.