<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Steven Adeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>yea, that's the backup plan, just record everything through the HDPVR.<br>
I like the idea of firewire though since a lot of the channels I get<br>
are 1080i and from what I've read the HDPVR pretty much only works<br>
when recording 720p.<br></blockquote><div><br>I have a similar setup. It should be as simple as creating an input group for the box, and adding both the firewire tuner and the HDPVR tuner to that input group. Each tuner would have it's own source with the channels you want that tuner to be able to record. I have an external channel change script that I use for both inputs that change the channel on the box over firewire. I have a Scientific Atlanta box, but I imagine that there is a standalone program that can change channels over firewire for your box as well.<br>
<br>The external script is useful since you can add some additional delay on the changes to allow the resolution and everything to stabilize before starting the HDPVR. This isn't as necessary on trunk builds with the new signal monitor setup for the HDPVR, but on older builds it is definitely needed. The only downside to having the delay is if you use LiveTV for channel surfing, since it will add that delay on every channel change. I don't use LiveTV very often so this works out fine for me.<br>
<br>On a side note, I have my cable box set up to just pass through the source resolution to the HDPVR and I haven't had any issues recording at 1080i, 720p, or 480p/i. I have also seen reports of others having issues with 1080i, but I decided to try it anyway, and it *works for me*; YMMV.<br>
<br>--Dave<br></div></div><br>