HOWTO: switch between analog and digtal sources in windows 7 mc

This could go into terrestrial as well, but I figure it is better here.

I recently upgraded my media box to windows 7. My tuner is dual analog / digital tuner. I set up both the digital and analog antennas. Currently RTENL is only broadcasting the test pattern on TG4. Sometimes they do that on TV3 as well. Such is the pleasure of using a test. Anyhow, the picture quality is so much better on the digital channels I’m willing to put up with it.

When you install windows 7 it finds the analog and digital channels and merges them. When you go watch the channel it picks the digital one. If that’s showing the test pattern, you can switch off the digital source very easily and mc will use the analog one. You can even split the digital channel from the analog channel.

To turn off the digital source, go to the guide, move over to the channel (on the channel name, not just the channel listings) you want to change and push more info on the remote (or right click) and select edit channel.


Select edit sources


Untick the digital sources, leaving the analog ones ticked. You can also split the analog sources into a different channel. You merge them back together by editing the listing.


Come back to edit sources to check if the digital signal is turned on again.
I took me a while to work this out, hope this helps someone.