[linux-dvb] Re: xawtv needs szap (was: Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s recognized but not working)

[Gregoire Favre <greg@magma.unil.ch>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:55:47PM +0200, Walter Schittek wrote:

> With szap, xawtv works now. It gives the same error messages, but it 
> works. Thank you very much for this tip!
> 
> It's not obvious for a beginner, that xawtv needs another program for 
> tuning, because it has its own possibility to switch between channels.
> But maybe the xawtv channels must be configured from scratch while szap 
> takes the ready-to-use VDR channels.conf. Or is there another reason?
> 
> Proposal: Could it make sense to add a little sentence to the INSTALL 
> file of the DVB driver that recommends to use xawtv and szap together? 
> Most of the DVB beginners will wish to confirm that their DVB card and 
> driver are working together. My idea of only using xawtv for that aim 
> was not the way of minimum effort that I thought it would be ...

Well,

for me THE real combination is xawtv AND VDR, as since quiete a long
times, xawtv control VDR via the SVDRP ;-)

Just give it a try, VDR is really tremendous!!!

	Grégoire
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