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#SAGETV FIREWIRE INSTALL#
The HD-PVR tuning device should be the last of the bunch you install at one time.Ħ. If you have any other Hauppauge tuners to install at this time, do the others first. I’ll cover setting up firewire channel changing next week.4. Firewire – If you’re using firewire for channel changing you’ll be happier because it’s much more accurate and channel changes are much faster than with an IR blaster. Again my preference by far is the USB-UIRT.ī.
#SAGETV FIREWIRE MANUAL#
If using the included Hauppauge blaster follow the instructions in the Hauppauge manual and check this thread for more instructions (many, many people have issues getting the included IR blaster working). If you’re using the USB-UIRT follow the instructing in the link above. I prefer the USB-UIRT if you’ll be using IR Blasting to change channels. IR Blaster - a poor IR blaster comes with the HD-PVR which I don’t recommend using. You can either use Optical (preferred) or the RCA audio cable to do this.Ī. Connect the audio from your set top box to your HD-PVR. Take the included component cable that came with the HD-PVR and connect one end to your HD-PVR Component Video In and the other end of the cables to your set top box Component Video Out ports.Ģ. Don’t use the S-Video or Composite (RCA) for this. First connect the HD-PVR to your cable TV or satellite TV set top box. Read on for the complete how-to on setting up the HD-PVR with SageTVġ.
#SAGETV FIREWIRE HOW TO#
Added bonus if your cable/satellite box has an active firewire port because if it does I’ll show you how to connect your cable box to your HTPC to change channels more quickly and accurately than using an IR Blaster. Audio is recorded using two channel stereo or optical audio with five channel Dolby Digital.If you’re using the HD-PVR for recording TV content to SageTV you’ll need either a Cable box or a Satellite box with a component video output and preferably an optical output for audio. HD-PVR records component video (YCrCb) from video game consoles and cable TV and satellite set top boxes, with a built-in IR blaster to automatically change TV channels for scheduled recordings. HD PVR is the world’s first High Definition video recorder for making real-time H.264 compressed recordings at resolutions up to 1080i. SageTV has the best (read most reliable) solution for using the HD-PVR and today I’ll show you how to install and set up the Hauppauge HD-PVR for use with SageTV’s HTPC software. The HD-PVR from Hauppauge records directly from the component out port of any device and uses the “analog hole” to bypass any restrictions put on the content by the provider.
#SAGETV FIREWIRE PC#
but I'm still confused about how his PC is controlling the cable box.Want to record any channel from your Cable or Satellite TV provider? Better yet, want to be able to detect commercials on those recordings and control how you use & store those recordings? Well the Hauppauge HD-PVR is your device. Getting the Firewire to work perfectly is not an easy process, but doable with plenty of patience and frequent reference to Sage TV's uer forum :)" whoa!Ĭan you explain a bit more how he's doing this and why we can't do it on Rogers? Does he have a "component HD capture device" that you mentioned previously, or is that built into his Shaw box and lacking on the Rogers ones?ĮDIT: I just noticed a post from the author of the video, he says: "I use ATI Theater 650 tuner cards for analogue capture, and use Firewire video capture for the digital/HD channels. As you can see his computer gets HDTV through cable (Shaw) and his Media Center (he uses SageTV which is MCE's only real competitor) can actually make the Shaw box change channels.