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The Video Disk Recorder
TV Done Right
With the availability of high capacity hard disks and MPEG encoders/decoders
the idea of a fully digital video recorder comes to mind.
Meanwhile there are several commercial products on the market that implement
this functionality. Some of these systems are mainly targeted at working together
with special services provided by the system manufacturer, which offer the consumer a
personalized recording strategy - and sometimes are available only at extra costs.
The downside of these systems is often the lack of a really flexible "timer recording"
facility, and the manufacturers' tendencies to implement new ways of imposing
advertisements on the viewer (since it would become too easy to skip the
commercial breaks). They also don't support what one would expect to come
natural with digital recording: on-disk editing. And finally they won't let you
get access to the actual recorded digital data (for instance for archiving).
The VDR homepage has moved from http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr to http://www.tvdr.de!
Please update all links pointing to the old URL!
Version 1.6.0
This project describes how to build your own digital satellite receiver and Video Disk Recorder. It is based mainly on the "Siemens/Technotrend" DVB-S digital satellite receiver card, and the driver software developed by the LinuxTV project. You can get such cards at www.dvbshop.net.
