[mythtv-users] HDTV via firewire/DCT6200 , records fine, live TV times out?

[Matt Goebel]

I was having problems with recording HDTV via a NEC based firewire card 
to a DCT-6200 cable box.  It would record one show or allow me to watch 
live TV once before the "tuner" would stop working and I'd have to do a 
full reboot to get it working again.  I was also seeing a lot of 
choppiness given the hardware I have.  Attempting to fix all that I 
swapped the NEC based firewire card out for one with the TI chipset.  
Now it records without missing anything and the quality is much better 
(still not 100% perfect but up there).    The new issue is that live TV 
doesn't work with that tuner!   Other tuners have priority for recording 
unless the show is in HD (or on a digital cable channel).  I obviously 
want to watch everything in HD then available so that card is the first 
on the list for live TV.  So when I go into live TV it almost always 
attemps to use the firewire tuner, the screen goes black for ~10 secs, 
then it drops me back into the main menu.  It doesn't let me switch to 
another tuner etc.. either making live TV useless.   I could reorganize 
the turner numbers to work around this but that's no fix.  Any ideas on 
how I can get this working?