Here is short instructions to VDR @ Mandriva: » Install VDR

The Video Disk Recorder is a Linux program from Klaus Schmidinger. It is used to receive digital TV and radio programs with a Personal Computer. If you wish you can record and play back those recordings at will. Its features include time-shifting and on-disk editing of the recordings.

Like any other hi-fi equipment, VDR can be controlled through remote controls. The user interface is a menu displayed on the television (On Screen Display).

The software is released under the GPL. Everybody can download and use the source code freely. Also there exist many extensions in the form of Plugins and Patches, e.g. a DVD player or a MP3 player.

Two pictures is worth a 2000 words so here is two screenshots from my TV screen.

Added: Screenshots

Great! Thanks!!!
Kristi

Instructions have been updated. Some install procedures changed with newer VDR version. Tested on Mandriva 2006, no problems.

Added instructions to get (mpg, avi, xvid, divx, mp3...) playback support, vdr admin (modded), commands.conf examples and other smaller updates.

how about help to run vdr, installed all packets from controll center. have some problem ' vdr: please turn off UTF-8 before starting VDR' this i know how to bypass, but not another errors,posting after that

ok:
[root@rolks-ad1c0234d sysconfig]# runvdr
Started runvdr for vdr
vdr: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av_opt_set_defaults
Starting Video Disk Recorder [ weather dxr3 xineliboutput burn svdrpservice ]
vdr: warning - cannot set dumpable: Invalid argument
VDR died, restarting
vdr: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av_opt_set_defaults
Starting Video Disk Recorder [ weather dxr3 xineliboutput burn svdrpservice ]
vdr: warning - cannot set dumpable: Invalid argument
VDR died, restarting
vdr: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av_opt_set_defaults
Starting Video Disk Recorder [ weather dxr3 xineliboutput burn svdrpservice ]
vdr: warning - cannot set dumpable: Invalid argument
VDR died, restarting
vdr: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av_opt_set_defaults
Starting Video Disk Recorder [ weather dxr3 xineliboutput burn svdrpservice ]
vdr: warning - cannot set dumpable: Invalid argument
VDR died too often, exiting
[root@rolks-ad1c0234d sysconfig]#


so next error is:
vdr: error while reading '/var/lib/vdr/video/sources.conf'

if any can guide trouth this errors, please help if you can

so new mandriva new errors. seems new version(2007.1] working on some part.
my error is