Video Disk Recorder

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Video Disk Recorder
Developer(s) Klaus-Peter Schmidinger [1]
Initial release7 April 2002;22 years ago (2002-04-07)
Stable release
2.6.1 / 2 February 2022;2 years ago (2022-02-02)
Repository
Written in C, C++
Operating system Linux
Type Personal video recorder
License GPL
Website tvdr.de

Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is an open-source application for Linux designed to allow any computer to function as a digital video recorder, in order to record and replay TV programming using the computer's hard drive. The computer needs to be equipped with a digital TV tuner card. [2] VDR can also operate as an mp3 player and DVD player using available plugins. VDR uses drivers from the LinuxTV project. VDR was originally written by Klaus-Peter Schmidinger, one of the founders of CadSoft Computer GmbH and original developer of the EAGLE electronic design application. [3] [1] The software was originally hosted on CadSoft's server. [4] [5]

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