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.

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.