i finally gave up on getting the sa4250HDC to play nice with mythtv and traded it in for a sa3250HD. downgrading boxes i do lose hdmi out from the cable stb… but component works just fine. after connecting everything up, all i had to do was clear my inputs in mythtv and re-add them. firewire capture is working! muahaha!

changing channels via firewire is wonky, mythtv does change the channel of the stb but not properly. instead of hunting it down in mythbuntu 8.04 i’m going to re-install 7.10 and start clean from there. i think i’m also going to switch from the firefly remote to a mce remote for the time being too. i’m slowly gathering tons of hdtv/mythtv hardware.. atleast i don’t have to play with an ir blaster anymore.