In that case (ie. switching to analog tv) "vdr" should go into some "suspend mode" (I don't know if something like this exists) or at least free the frontend device, so that "vdr" (or some plugin) does not tune to another frequency accidently.Running the analog module with "xawtv" and "vdr" in parallel simply does not work, because access to the tuner is not exclusive, ie. tuning in "xawtv" and "vdr" will kill each others settings. Of course this is a bug and should be fixed.
Well, I have to disagree .. in some sense. I use xawtv as a frontend to vdr.
This works fine. Using CVS-dvb-driver I can switch from dvb to television (analog) an back within xawtv.
This works but I have to find the analogAs I already said, "scantv" only helps you to find an initial configuration. But you can do all this manually in "xawtv", too.
channels by interupting scantv ;-( yes, quiet buggy.
There is no usable scenario where you would want to run both programs in parallel anyway IMHO.
Ok, I admit that I wasn't very precise: no usable scenario means the usual "vdr" user which has the tv connected to the video output of the card. Because the analog stuff is completely separated from this ouput, it's completely useless, unless you use your monitor with "xawtv" to watch tv.There are channels I receive only by dvb or analog. Thus IMHO it's convenient to use both at the same time.
In theory it should work, but of course not if you plan to still use "vdr" in conjunction with "xawtv" on your monitor. "analogtv" captures live-tv from the analog input (so no overlay video with "xawtv" is possible any more) compresses it to mpeg and uses the playback facilities of the card to show it.analogtv as a plugin to vdr seems to be a solution. I don't know how far it's integrated, do you know?
To be honest, I personally think that the analog module of the dvb-c cards isn't really usable for a "real" tv experience, because it was simply glued to the dvb hardware, nobody really cared to make it really usable completely.Thanks. Michael