[mythtv-users] Firewire DCT recording -> Myth?

[Ken Mandelberg]

Steven Adeff" <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

 >yea, get a non-DVR box just for you Myth backend.

Unfortunately, Comcast does not offer one. In this area the only thing 
with firewire is the $18/month DVR.

I wish there was an HDHomerun type box with cablecard, but I guess 
Cablelabs would never certify it regardless of whether it was firewire 
or ethernet.


So back to my original query,

 >Right now I would settle for doing it manually. I have done this with
 > "custom record", but this has a 5 minute granularity on start time, and
 >   wants to do an extraneous channel change. If I preposition the DCT to
 > be ready to play the recording, the channel change loses it. Then there
 > is the matter of trying to associate the metadata that myth knows (or
 > maybe knew) with the recording.

 >Has anyone worked out a better way?