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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 238

Separate VDR client and server installs

Hi everyone,

I've just been playing around with VDR and I got it set up really quickly. I have a server box running my dvb stack including vdr with the streamdev plugin and I can watch tv on my desktop using vlc by opeing the vdr playlist over http.

What I was wondering was if I can install vdr client bit on my desktop (i.e. without needing the dvb dependencies) and have that connect to the vdr installed on my server? I was wondering if this might give a richer experience, one with a proper epg and so on...

When I installed VDR on my server there were loads of dependencies that I would not have expected: things like fonts and so on that themselves have loads of dependencies. Has anyone any thoughts on stripping down the server side to minimise bloat ?

Also any other thoughts on VDR if anyone's using it. What other things to try, etc... I'm going to tinker with the recording bit next...

The Arch wiki pages for vdr were a great help so thanks as always for great resources