OK I now have the following set up:

- hush with VIA Epia M10000 - Fedora Core 8 up to date except libX11* - xine-lib 1.2 from hg today 27/03/2008 - vdr 1.6.0 - vdr-xine 0.8.2 - femon 1.2.4 - vdradmin-am-3.6.1

*In order to use xine with xxmc hardware acceleration I have downgraded libX11 to the version from Fedora Core 7 - bug libX11 with xcb support

xine still locks up if I change desktops to check my mail or if I try to use the right click configuration menu when running with vdr. Fine when running xine with other media files.

I am now able to use pulseaudio in xine - recent updates of alsa and pulseaudio probably fixed the issues I was having. Sound can still be crappy when watching an avi file...

Cheers

Tony