PVR or DVR for Linux - NOT MythTV

[markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org]

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:20:20PM -0400, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a good DVR/PVR for Linux that is not MythTV? I don't
>> want to get into a holey war about MythTV, but it is difficult to set up
>> and requires MySQL. I'm not going to MySQL just for one thing. I have a
>> personal issue about applications being tightly linked with databases,
>> and
>> I have a real dislike of MySQL.
>>
>> So, anything usable? I mean, come on, its all there, you could
>> practically
>> use cron, so what's the deal? Is there one out there?
>
> Not really.
>
> Oh, sure, you can use cron, cat and mplayer if you buy MPEG2
> hardware compressor cards and ATSC/QAM tuners. But where are you
> going to get your scheduling information from? And is anyone
> else in the house going to use it, or just you?

Well, I don't know how your house works, but in my house, I'm the only one
who ever knew how to program the VCR anyway, so using cron or something
else doesn't bother me. Sheesh, I *still* have to operate the
entertainment system because my wife will just pull out a portable CD
player.
>
> You can use Freevo, but that uses SQLite, and if you don't like
> MySQL, you won't like that.

I like SQLite, actually, the reason I do is that it is *not* a server. I
don't want to run a database server just for an application. If I have to
run a database server, I want to be able to chose my database. If the
application is going to embed its database, then let it do what it wants.



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