[ixian]

I'm using NPVR with an HD HomeRun Dual (HDHR3-US ) which is outputting MPEG-2.

During playback of live TV all of the deinterlacing options are grayed out and cannot be accessed.

I will try playback tonight and get a log.

If it can't be fixed though, your statement about your tuners that output h.264 could be a possible solution. I've been searching so hard for the "all in one holy grail box to rule them all" that I'd be willing to invest in new tuners if it fixed the one and only problem I am having with the AFTV.

It looks like for $150 I could pick up a HDTC-2US which will transcode to h.264.

Well, LiveTV works really well for me on the AFTV - using and NPVR 3.29 with two Hauppauge capture cards as the backend, set to 9mb constant bitrate. Looks good, channel changes are fast - in fact I'd say the AFTV handles it just as well as my NUC does. So if you can get a tuner that outputs h.264 in hardware like the Colossus capture cards do then you are probably in luck.

I'm using Eminence, btw, which is a really nice WIP Skin for Gotham and has the best EPG I've seen. Works great on the AFTV and looks amazing. It's still WIP, so you might run in to a bug or two and there are some minor features (music widgets, etc) not implemented yet, but I have no issues running it on all my XBMC boxes day to day.