hvr-1800 3 inputs?

[SageGk]

Ok, I have an 1800 with my STB connected via S-Video, and QAM connected to the coaxial input on the 1800. There is an open NTSC coaxial input on the card. Can I connect anything to this as another source in SageTV?

[Conejo]

Simple answer, no.

There's only one MPEG2 encoder chip on the Hauppauge HVR-1x00 cards that's shared with the Composite/S-Video/Analog-NTSC-Tuner input.

You *can* connect it to a cable or antenna feed and use an application, like WinTV, to select any one of the sources to monitor. But applications like SageTV want Full Time available access to the Sources you've set up. While you might be able to set up three sources for this tuner in SageTV... the first time your system tried to record a different show using the Video In AND the Analog Tuner it would cause a problem in the cards on-board encoder.

EDIT: Or you can read the next post. If you do set up the card as three working sources, post back here and let us know how it worked.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by SageGk

I have an 1800 .... There is an open NTSC coaxial input on the card. Can I connect anything to this as another source in SageTV?

Yes.

You should be able to connect both analog coax + svideo, like people have done with older Hauppauge tuners. While SageTV can only record from 1 of those inputs at a time, it should know that they are both connected to the same encoder and schedule recordings accordingly. Before I got my HD-PVRs, that's what I did with my PVR-USB2 tuners: cable to the coax input for analog channels + svideo from the STB for STB-only channels.

The inputs need to use different lineups, though, and that really means different lineups, not just choosing basic vs extended for the same lineup on the 2 inputs.

- Andy