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[wortelsoft]

Well only one channel from the stb.
But if you have analog chanels on the coax as well you can record/watch them at the same time. (in the combinations mentioned in my previous post)

 

[hopeflicker]

awww! now i think i understand. thanks. Ill try this config tonight.
Ill probably end up using the configuration in your diagram.

 

[patrick]

Wortelsoft,
But as Patrick mentioned above:
On a side note.
If I understand your setup correctly I think you will only be able
to watch/record one channel at a time even though you have two
tuners on the PVR-500 because the STB is doing the tuning and
passing that single channel to the card.

I want to make sure i can record one thing while i watch another. But now, according to Patrick, it my not be possible with a STB

Didn't mean to scare you
In your early post you said that the only input to the PVR-500 was the svideo from the STB.
If this is the case you will only have one channel at a time because the
STB is only sending the single currently tuned channel out via svideo.

Wortelsoft is right too, if you run the coax straight to the PVR-500 you should
be able to view your analog channels(1-99) without going through the STB.
That would be the best approach as you can have two fully functioning tuners
via coax(for analog channels) plus full use of your STB(while recording analog
channels) and you would only tie up the STB when you need the upper digital
channels.

So how I would do it:
- Split the coax at the wall, run one end to the STB and the other to the PVR-500.
- Run svideo out from the STB into the PVR-500
- In MP configuration.exe, Clear any existing channels
- Make sure your cards are configured properly
- Run auto-tune on both cards
- Enable the zap2it plugin.
- In the zap2it plugin config Advanced options, select Automatically add new digital channels with an external video input of svhs.
- Enable channel renaming.
- OK out of the plugin config and configuration.exe
- Run MP and let the plugin download the listings.
This may take 20-30 minutes of so for the first time depending on # of channels,
days and PC speed.


Sorry for the confusion, I just mentioned my setup so you could see
the difference between svideo alone and coax+svideo.


Hopfully I did not create more confusion

HTH,
patrick

 

[hopeflicker]

NP, Patrick.

I appriciate everyones help

 

[hopeflicker]

Wortelsoft,
But as Patrick mentioned above:
On a side note.
If I understand your setup correctly I think you will only be able
to watch/record one channel at a time even though you have two
tuners on the PVR-500 because the STB is doing the tuning and
passing that single channel to the card.

I want to make sure i can record one thing while i watch another. But now, according to Patrick, it my not be possible with a STB

Didn't mean to scare you
In your early post you said that the only input to the PVR-500 was the svideo from the STB.
If this is the case you will only have one channel at a time because the
STB is only sending the single currently tuned channel out via svideo.

Wortelsoft is right too, if you run the coax straight to the PVR-500 you should
be able to view your analog channels(1-99) without going through the STB.
That would be the best approach as you can have two fully functioning tuners
via coax(for analog channels) plus full use of your STB(while recording analog
channels) and you would only tie up the STB when you need the upper digital
channels.

So how I would do it:
- Split the coax at the wall, run one end to the STB and the other to the PVR-500.
- Run svideo out from the STB into the PVR-500
- In MP configuration.exe, Clear any existing channels
- Make sure your cards are configured properly
- Run auto-tune on both cards
- Enable the zap2it plugin.
- In the zap2it plugin config Advanced options, select Automatically add new digital channels with an external video input of svhs.
- Enable channel renaming.
- OK out of the plugin config and configuration.exe
- Run MP and let the plugin download the listings.
This may take 20-30 minutes of so for the first time depending on # of channels,
days and PC speed.


Sorry for the confusion, I just mentioned my setup so you could see
the difference between svideo alone and coax+svideo.


Hopfully I did not create more confusion

HTH,
patrick

Ok, I've finally had some time to sit down and work on this agian as well as obtaining another splitter and making some coax jumpers.
I've followed everything to the "T" what Patrick said. All of the channels are loaded and now when i go to "TV ON" or TV gude and click on a channel to watch all a see is a blank/black screen (no errors).
I'm using Cyberlink Mpeg Muxer for audio and video codec.
Here are a couple pix so you can see my set up. Hopefully they'll be helpful.

Also, i dont see anywhere in my config where my external line up is.

 

[hopeflicker]

update

ok, i just installed a different decoder. Im now using the Nvidia decoder and now I have an image.