Send Channel change before starting recording

[bogyver]

I use the HD-PVR to record off a dish network box and I have noticed that at the beging of the recording it freezes and jumps a bit during the channel change, also when watching the HD-PVR the recording light turns on and off when the channel change occurs. I am using the optical on my dish box and I have noticed looking at the comskip logs that there are a bunch of audio errors at the begining of the file, in addition I have noticed that the dish box on my surround sound receiver also loses the audio signal during channel changes so I am sure its the audio that is the cause of symptoms.
So now to my request, is it possible to have channel changes happen before the recording starts by about 10 to 15 seconds to avoid this problem, I think it might be causing comskip issues since comskip isn't working at for recording off the HD-PVR.
Thanks

[bruce9x]

This may not be the answer you're looking for, but couldn't you just put some pre-padding to your recording?

[bogyver]

That wont work because its still recording, and its not that its messing up the show because its already padded. The only way I can think of to fix it is to change the channel before starting the recording.