Dear users of VDR and yaVDR!

Due to a downtime of VDR Portal, we invite you to join our own improvised support forum.

Update: VDR Portal is online again.

Two days ago, Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.21. As always, we are excited about the new version and want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.

The yaVDR team has already started to use the new developer version to create updated experimental VDR packages in our PPA unstable-vdr. Packages for Ubuntu Lucid (yaVDR 0.3) and Ubuntu Natty (yaVDR 0.4) are now available, but most of them are untested. It is possible that we will update our PPA testing-vdr with the predecessor version: Our VDR 1.7.20 packages that are only a couple of days old now need a new home.

Let's have a look at the changes in VDR 1.7.21.

How much fun do you normally have while re-sorting your channel list? Digital TV providers offer their customers hundreds of TV channels and radio stations. At some point almost every person who receives digitial TV has to fiddle with re-sorting some of these channels. This can cause major frustration because the on-screen menus of Set Top Boxes or TVs with built-in receivers often seem to be designed without the urge to win usability awards. Have you ever tried to move a channel from position 2847 to position 7 using the remote control? And after that, to move another channel from position 2846 to position 8? It's as much fun as playing Tetris while the blocks are only dropping by one line per minute.

Even within the open source PVR world it's a challenge to offer a solution with decent usability. But this is going to change soon: Upcoming yaVDR 0.4 will assist you with your channel list in quite a clever way. Let's have a look at the all new channel list editor in the yaVDR web frontend and its built-in access to Channelpedia, the new VDR channel list directory.

A week ago, Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.20. As always, we are excited about the new version and want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.

VDR 1.7.20 will replace the VDR 1.7.18 packages in yaVDR in the near future.

The promised first "alpha" or "pre" ISO image of yaVDR 0.4 is finally out, bearing the name yavdr64-0.4.0-pre1.iso. The members of the yaVDR team are proud that the public can now join in with testing, improving and extending what we have been working on hard since October 2010.

Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.19 yesterday. As always, we are excited about the new version and want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.

yaVDR 0.4 is slowly taking shape: We would like to give you an overview about all important changes and new features that we plan to put into yaVDR 0.4. This will happen in a series of blog postings, starting off today with focus on the cornerstones of yaVDR 0.4.

To make it more exciting to read, I'm pretending that somebody is conducting an interview with the yaVDR developers. (There should be an open source software that automatically comes up with the right interview questions to make it easier to write such stuff.)

Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.18. As always, we are excited about the new version and want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.

Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.17, introducing a TrueColor OSD to VDR. As always, we are excited about the new version and want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.