Since the first version of yaVDR was released in January 2010, yaVDR ISO images were downloaded 28.549 times until the end of February 2011... Therefore we expect to hit the 30.000 download mark this March.Counting internet downloads is an error-prone and imprecise craft. But our vanity and our sanity tell us to care for those numbers, and we try to count in a conservative way. It's a source of motivation, and it's also reassuring that what we do is somehow useful, for us and for other people.

It can't get much easier: Android app VPlayer allows VDR users to watch Live TV and recordings on a smartphone like the HTC Desire via WLAN. As the video streaming backend we use our own VDR box at home plus VDR plugin streamdev-server and VDR plugin Live (both are preinstalled on yaVDR).

Dear users of VDR and yaVDR!

Due to a downtime of VDR Portal, we have opened up a new temporary support forum for you.

We are happy to announce the release of yaVDR 0.3. It's based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx - just like yaVDR 0.2. But there are lot's of changes and new features "under the bonnet".

You have most likely heard the good news already: Ubuntu 10.10 was released yesterday!

As we are all big Ubuntu fans, we are very happy to have a fresh new release to play with on our development PCs. But how does the "Maverick Meerkat" change the game for yaVDR? Let's look at this question from two angles: "yaVDR - the distro" and "yaVDR - the provider of easily installable VDR packages for Ubuntu".

A few days ago, Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.16 which is a welcome opportunity for us to revive our blog and update it with the good news. Please find a detailed list of changes below. We want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.

Last week, I tried to give you an overview about the different VDR developer versions. As of today, this overview is already outdated and has to be updated: Two hours ago, Klaus Schmidinger has announced the release of VDR developer version 1.7.15. We are excited about the new version and want to thank Klaus for his steady work on VDR core.

We are happy to announce the release of yaVDR 0.2. It's based on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Migrating to the new Ubuntu version meant quite a lot of work, so thank you for your patience with us! During the last few weeks we were fighting the last bugs that suddenly showed up here and there and are now confident that the current state is stable enough to let you play with it. For your entertainment, there are - as always - hidden bugs and problems that want to be discovered. Enjoy! You can get the new ISO image from our download page.

For all users of yaVDR 0.1.1 who are wondering how to update their installation to yaVDR 0.2: Please allow us some more time to give you detailed instructions on how to get to yaVDR 0.2 via package updates. You won't find instructions in this blog posting. It is already quite long, because we would like to give you an overview about what new features, packages and changes you will get with yaVDR 0.2:

If you imagine the yaVDR distro being a human body, its heart would most likely be the VDR (core) software package. The VDR core is mainly maintained and extended by its inventor, Klaus Schmidinger. yaVDR 0.2 will use the currently latest VDR developer version 1.7.14 as its "heart". Although many users of VDR are very happy with 1.7.14, the current stable version of VDR is still version 1.6 which was released back in March 2008. Version 1.6 doesn't contain support for HDTV and DVB-S2 cards, that's why it doesn't make sense for us to use it within yaVDR.