What is yaVDR?
“yet another VDR” (yaVDR) is a Linux distribution focussed on Klaus Schmidingers Video Disk Recorder and based on Ubuntu Linux. Although yaVDR works quite well already, there are many things that are either buggy or don’t work automatically yet.
Is it possible to use VDR on a HTPC?
So we don’t recommend it for productive usage in case you have no experiences in configuring VDR manually. Quickly set up a digital video recorder (PVR) on your HTPC, receive SD and HD channels, manage it simply with a remote control.
What if I don’t install yaVDR on my Ubuntu installation?
Profit from our work, even if you don’t install yaVDR If a complete distribution is not the right thing for you and you still want to use the latest VDR packages with your ordinary Ubuntu installation: No problem! Just use the Launchpad repositories yaVDR is based on. Install the selection of VDR packages that you need.
Why does myyavdr want to bypass cold boot?
yaVDR wants to compete with other living room devices as much as possible using upstart to speed up the boot. Besides that, the shutdown method S3 (Suspend to RAM) is enabled by default to bypass cold boot.