2009-06-09, 15:31
bidossessi Wrote:is compiling still needed since vdr is in the jaunty repos?
Hi,
Note: Below I don't mention vdr-plugin-streamdev-server for reasons of simplicity. When I talk about VDR packages I implicitly mean VDR core + vdr-plugin-streamdev-server.
You can either use special builds of VDR 1.6.x (current stable release) or special builds of VDR 1.7.x (development version) with special builds of XBMC. freezy, author of this thread, went for the VDR development version. When he wrote this tutorial, 1.7.4 was the latest version. (currently, version 1.7.7 is the latest.)
The big difference between versions 1.6 and 1.7 is that 1.7 has support for DVB-S2 and H.264. If you don't have a DVB-S2 card, there is IMHO no urge for you to use 1.7.x. You can stay with 1.6.x. If you want to watch HD-channels that are broadcasted via DVB-S, DVB-C or DVB-T using VDR 1.6, you need to compile it with the H.264 patch to handle them. (The packages by gda mentioned below contain the H.264 patch).
The ordinary repositories to get VDR-packages from (debian, ubuntu, e-tobi.net, hanno.de) don't feature packages yet that are equipped with the necessary patches for XBMC. There are some individual Ubuntu package repositories where you can get VDR+XBMC packages from, most of them were set up by members of the German VDR community (vdr-portal.de):
For example, you can get VDR 1.6.x packages with XBMC-Patches from gda's PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gda-dachsweb/+archive/vdr). You can get XBMC packages that contain the VDR-patch from my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~henningpingel/+archive/xbmc). mirak (active in this thread) has VDR 1.7.x packages in his repository.
If you want to build VDR 1.6 packages with H.264 and XBMC support yourself: I wrote a small tutorial on how to build VDR 1.6.x with XBMC-Support in German language:
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.ph...post807318
Cheers,
hepi