Leadtek HDTV Cinema card

[TheFred]

I searched the forums and it appears virtually no one has spent any time with this capture card. So I am asking directly if anyone has experience setting up SageTV to work with this card?

The card has an Analog tuner as well as an ATSC/64-256QAM digital tuner. It also has two coax inputs so you can run an antenna into one for OTA NTSC and ATSC tuning and capture, and cable into the other for NTSC and 64-256 QAM tuning and capture. So you wind up with 4 channel sets and the ability to record an analog channel and a digital channel at the same time.

The software it came with is ArcSoft TotalMedia3 which interfaces with the card really well, but it lacks certain features I require. It will not "wake" a computer from sleep mode, record a scheduled program, then return the computer to sleep mode. You have to be logged on for any recording. Oh, and the application does not close after a scheduled recording completes. It also does not have overscan compensation so the on-screen controls are often off-screen.

Now in playing with SageTV I can recieve OTA ATSC and NTSC broadcasts, although the quality is not what I get from TM3. But SageTV does not recognize the second coax input so I could not add the cable channels. So then I removed the OTA coax and connected my cable to the Antenna input and re-setup SageTV. Well it tuned in the analog NTSC cable channels but failed to recognize and capture any 64-256 QAM cable channels.

Anyone... anyone... anyone... Bueller?

Sorry for such a long post.