OMG, how something that simple can fix things. Seriously, if you looked at farmboy03's instructions, that link you just posted was on it, I apparently missed placing "txt" on that field. Now the only thing that isn't working out right is that my current SA settings are skipping commercials too early/starting the next segment a couple of seconds late. Don't worry I won't bug you for that because methinks I saw some good settings on one of the threads around here.

On a different note, I work as a systems analyst here in the Bay Area and one of the things I've been working on eversince I bought SageTV 4 and Beyond TV 4 (because I was high) is, compiling a list of good links and making a decent user doc out of it (yes I write design/user docs too). I would really like to create a decent user doc (containing field descriptions etc.) for integrating SA/DirMon with STV or BTV, so if you're looking for someone to help you with that, let me know and drop me a line (you should have my e-mail addy because I purchased SA, I think). It's all labor of love. I'll proceed with what I am doing and post it for other people out there to help them out because this is crazy, I feel like I went way over my head when I tried being know-it-all and went with and HTPC instead of TiVo.

I just wished that, BTV and STV has a simple interface that allowed you to copy to DVD/CD without leaving the application just like MCE. I'll be around scouring the boards for good settings, thanks!

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Gigabyte 800M 775 Micro ATX MoBo; P4 HT 2.6Ghz 775; 200GB HD EIDE; 1GB 400MHZ DDR; eVGA 6600LE 256MB; Hauppauge PVR500MCE; ATI HDTV All-in-Wonder; SB Audigy 2 ZS; inside an NMedia Micro ATX HTPC Black Case.