VDR is an advanced PVR suite and configuring it may not be straight-forward.
Please take a look at the provided documentation first.

Note that VDR does not support output to X11 or framebuffer without
additional plugins, such as xineliboutput or softdevice.

VDR service is provided for your convenience. Instead of running vdr
directly, you should use the vdr service.

Mageia VDR packages have the following filesystem layout:

/etc/sysconfig/vdr
Mageia VDR configuration file; the settings in this file are used to
construct the VDR parameters.

/etc/sysconfig/vdr-PLUGINNAME
Mageia VDR plugin configuration files; the settings in these files are used
to construct the parameters for VDR plugins.

/var/lib/vdr/video
Default VDR recordings directory.

/var/lib/vdr/config
Default VDR configuration directory.

/usr/share/vdr/chanlogos
Default channel logo directory; The channel logos are used by plugins that
support them. The most compatible format is 64x48px 16-color xpm.

For more information on VDR and its plugins, see http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/ .