Best TV-Backend?

I will on the weekend, I need to change to a more "realistic" setup for real tests (right now tvheadend and ubuntu are running in a VM) and XBMC-PVR on MacOS instead of Linux (and a very old Build)

VDR i'm use has many plugins, does tvheadend or mythtv has similair plugins?

Marx1 Wrote:VDR i'm use has many plugins, does tvheadend or mythtv has similair plugins?

The author of VDR made it as minimal as possible in benefit of speed and code complexity. Because of this most features are implemented as plugins. The author also aims to implement the basics as an plugin. So to answer your question better you should specify what functions are important to you.

In general I can tell you that MythTV has more features implemented in the application itself while VDR offers these as plugins. Both VDR and Myth has a large set of plugins. So VDR and Myth are comparable... although there might exist a plugin/feature the other does not has.

I have worked (and coded) quite a bit with Myth and VDR, But lack experience with TVHeadend, so I can't inform you about TVHeadend yet.

haifischjunge Wrote:Im using the TT3600 S-2 USB thingi, so far it looks good, but Im on ski vacation and here ive got terrible reception so I came only to the point where everything was working by principle but wasnt usable.

Have you got any tips for getting the TT3600 s-2 thingi working? I have one too but cannot get it installed on Mythbuntu.

tmpdir Wrote:The author of VDR made it as minimal as possible in benefit of speed and code complexity. Because of this most features are implemented as plugins. The author also aims to implement the basics as an plugin. So to answer your question better you should specify what functions are important to you.

In general I can tell you that MythTV has more features implemented in the application itself while VDR offers these as plugins. Both VDR and Myth has a large set of plugins. So VDR and Myth are comparable... although there might exist a plugin/feature the other does not has.

I have worked (and coded) quite a bit with Myth and VDR, But lack experience with TVHeadend, so I can't inform you about TVHeadend yet.

1) I thought about analog TV, and in future DVB-T, so three cards at once.
2) TVheadend doesn't have trancoding on-the-fly, in VDR it's possible. How about MythTV?
3) Integration with XBMC - today VDR released version with true-color OSD possibility, maybe someone will make Confluence skin for VDR...? Because xbmc-pvr is rather unstable now. Maybe other backends has more stable connection?

Marx1 Wrote:1) I thought about analog TV, and in future DVB-T, so three cards at once.

Both Mythtv and VDR have no problem with multiple tv-cards and you can mix analog and DVB. Support for analog cards is possible in mythtv without plugins in vdr you need a plugin.

Tvheadend also supports analog TV. Only PAL, ntsc is experimental. see the tvheadend wiki for ntsc support.

Quote:2) TVheadend doesn't have trancoding on-the-fly, in VDR it's possible. How about MythTV?

MythTV has settings to change the compression rate to save diskspace. I've not seen an option to change the file format if thats what your looking for.

Quote:3) Integration with XBMC - today VDR released version with true-color OSD possibility, maybe someone will make Confluence skin for VDR...? Because xbmc-pvr is rather unstable now. Maybe other backends has more stable connection?

Personally I don't mind the vdr looks. I like the simple look when watching livetv. Livetv itself is as dated and simple as well

From what I've read xmc supports tvheadend slightly better than VDR or Mythtv. I'm using vdr standalone with a button on my remote to switch between xbmc and VDR (live tv). But the recent developments look promissing and I'll give XBMC-pvr + tvheadend a testrun. I like how tvheadend is organized and how simple it is to install a new version from source or installation package (like XBMC).

Before even starting to install VDR you're required to read a fair amount to find the right dependencies and latest compatible plugins. Mythtv is even worse.