oops. Yup. Glad I specified what I meant. Brain already on vacation. Whheeeeeee!

People make that mistake all the time.

I've got EyeTV and it is fantastic. I'm currently using a dual tuner HDHomerun for the Clear QAM channels, an EyeTV250 for analog channels (basic cable? I am unclear on exactly what is what, really). I've also got the Comcast provided dual tuner DVR for encrypted channels, but I fill up the hard drive faster than I can get the shows watched (I'm behind in everything and it's the newest episodes that go onto the DVR, of course, but I am the sort of TV watcher that must watch everything in order (having the capability to record 5 different things at once does not help with this compulsion, ftr)), so I'm trying to find a way to archive the digital HD shows off of the DVR until I can catch up.

I updated VLC to the latest version and iRecord to the prerelease beta and I got it to record short test videos just fine. if it continues to work with an actual full-length episode I will be very happy.

Hey, has anyone successfully gotten video off of a cable box via firewire? Or unsuccessfully, for that matter. I'm trying to figure it out

I made it work once with my Scientific Atlanta, but I've actually forgotten how I did it. It worked nicely, though, back then.

This post was brought to you by the bureau of incredibly unhelpful comments. For our next trick, we will teach students to spend as much time as possible yelling "SHUT UP SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO LEARN!" back and forth at each other in order to improve the lives of high school teachers everywhere.

That is actually heartening to read. Unless you are part of the vast conspiracy bent on making me waste my time pursuing an impossibility. And if you are, tell everyone at the meeting that it's really not necessary, I will find other useless things on which to waste my time.

Still have not completed a successful full episode test, but I think I am learning from my mistakes.

Help w/iTunes, please?? I was starting it up, and importing my library or whatever was taking forever, so I said stop. Got an error message about something not being a valid library file or something. Opened iTunes, and most of my songs and all of my playlists are gone. I closed it down and restarted, same thing. What do I do? Did I just break it?

Augh!

OK, I see I have what seems to be a legit iTunes library from September. Can I just get that one back in? I don't even know what would be missing (not much, I think), but it would be way better than this mishegas I have now!

I'm guessing that's why they keep Previous iTunes Libraries in a folder, huh.

DVR downlaod via firewire update: it appears that the reason I had so much trouble figuring out what was going on is that it doesn't make sense. I can successfully migrate (if realtime recording can be called migrating) Chuck and Friday Night Lights, but not K-Ville, which was what I arbitrarily started testing.

I guess I don't have to understand it if I can make it work.

Longshot hivemind question:

At my office we have a new copier/fax/scanner that receives faxes in pdf format into a folder on our server called "Faxes". Right now, someone has to double click on that folder every so often to check if any new faxes have come in. Does anyone know of a program I can run on my computer that will alert me every time a fax is received into that folder, or every time the folder has been modified?

Some of those come with a software that checks for you.

What model is the FSC?