What Improvement and Enhanced features you like to see

[SHS]

Post then here hauppauge will be take note on what like you see,

[MuldeR]

Option in WinTV2k app to choose the location for temporary files for LiveTV mode.
Or even better: Option to disable temporary files and let it buffer in RAM, so I don't need a RAM drive as workaround anymore.
That would be fine

[SmokieStover]

Accessible audio volume settings....volume meter too!

Record without video preview.

Record from standby.

Enable custom recording profiles.

Closed captions.

[MuldeR]

I wonder whether any of the Hauppauge developers takes notice of this ...

[SHS]

The CEO did look it over but as you can tell there no much here

[The_Doman]

Post then here hauppauge will be take note on what like you see,

The CEO did look it over but as you can tell there no much here

So let's see if they will take notice then...

With the current normal version of WINTV2000 (for analog WinTV/PVR cards) it is still not possible to display true 16:9 (anamorph) sources correctly.

So my request again to have an easy option to switch between 4:3 and 16:9-anamorph picture format.
Almost every modern TV today has the possibility to do that with a simple press of a button.
And again, just like the PAL60 issue it is something which concerns us European PAL users the most!
More and more (digital) TV stations are broadcasting here in 16:9 anamorph format now.

It should be very easy to add this option to the current version of WinTV2000!
 
Some more information about this issue:
Haupauge UK: 16:9 TV display?
Haupauge UK: pvr150 and s-video from sky

To make it more clear again:

This is what you see when recording/viewing a so called 16:9 anamorph broadcast with WINTV2000 from a digital decoder:


WINTV2000 should have a button to display it correctly like this:

[jtcronin]

----- Suggestion 1

The active display of the video content by WinTV is a huge consumer of PC resources.  In investigating it further I see the application is set to run at HIGH priority.  This allows WinTV to run at 98-100% of cpu utilization.  This can lead to problems elsewhere on the PC that affect the stability of the application and the reliability of the recording process.

The request to "Record without video preview" is very important, it would be nice if this could be a command line switch on WinTV and something that could be set by the scheduler. 

In research I have found that pressing Ctrl-F to freeze the display makes my recordings much more reliable.

OF ALL THE SUGGESTIONS I HAVE SEEN AND COULD THINK OF, THIS ONE SHOULD GET THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.

----- Suggestion 2

My biggest problem with recording two programs back to back on different channels.  WinTV must stop, then restart on the new channel.  Maybe a different design of WinTV should be considered.  Imagine an application that could run as a service and uses a command file to tell it what to record and when.  (It could be like Unix's CRON that operates off of a CRONTAB file.)  With this approach one could transition from one program/channel/file to another in a matter of seconds, instead of minutes. 

---- Suggestion 3

I would also like to record a long (several hour) program in increments of 15, 30, 60, etc minutes.  Each increment would be saved in a separate file.  This would make future editing and recording the material to DVD much easier.  (If you implemented my previous suggestion [2], this feature would be easy to implement.)  This would make Hauppauge adapters and WinTV better suited to record importent content -- scientific experiments, legal discussions, etc. 

---- Suggestion 4

Before I do any serious scheduled recordings, I run a utility to run that sets my PC clock to an internet time standard.  It is run as a schedule job about 15 mintues before I want to record something.  (There are many good utilities on the internet.)  If there is a power outage and my PC clock becomes inaccurate, this insures I will not miss any programming.

I suggest a feature be added to WinTV and the Scheduler to automatically reset the PC clock to keep the recording process exactly on time.

---- Suggestion 5

It would be nice if I could add the date and time to the recording, either displayed or encoded in the video stream somehow.

Thanks for a great product.

[LouCypher]

I think the channel manager in WinTV is absolutely awful. A scan for all channels took over 5 hours on my system and only found duplicates of a handful of channels.

I recently setup GB-PVR with my WinTV-1800 and it found four times as many clear QAM channels, none of them dupes.

The reference to channels in WinTV makes no sense. In GB-PVR it corresponds to what I'd enter on my TV: channel-subchannel (ex. 89-2, 90-14). I'd much rather see them rewrite the suite manager to resemble something closer to the system in GB-PVR (which finds more channels a LOT faster).

[sreeve]

1) Ability to record into different directories (per show would be nice)
2) Ability to record in different format per show

I.e. I would like to record regular tv for my wife in its own directory and for my son (who like the cartoons) in its own directory.  Higher resolution for the shows, lesser resolution for the cartoons.

Alternatively (to #1) put a real timestamp in the name of the file (date and time, etc.) so that I can just dump all the files to a directory myself (which is hard to do because once I dump a few shows in the dir, they start re-numbering at 001 and I can't then easily just dump the recent ones in because those same filenames already exist in the dir...)

Come up with a HOWTO on converting a "normal" PVR-XXX/Media MVP setup to work with SageTV.

[verin]

Post then here hauppauge will be take note on what like you see,

I don't know if this forum is still being monitored, but here are a few things I'd like to see:

1) When watching television, and a scheduled recording initiates, I'd like a popup window ask me if I would like to allow it to happen or if I'd prefer to keep watching what I was watching.  Or an option, in either the schedule or the app, that lets me pick something other than 'forcibly interrupt the important program i was watching to record a repeat'.

2) When watching television, and a scheduled recording happens, it should NOT exit the program if the schedule says to, it should just exit recording mode.   Why should I have to turn wintv back on just because a scheduled recording happens?

3) A re-sync button would be nice.   When running games, I often have wintv on another monitor in the background.   It runs fine, but sometimes when audio is accessed by a game, wintv desyncs.

4) I'd like wintv to do the prep-work for record/pause beforehand, there really should be no delay between pushing the pause button and when it should should record.  There is a third party program that offloads the recording stuff to a server program, something like that would be wonderful.

5 AND MOST IMPORTANT) record in background on singletuner models like the 950 stick.   

[arnold]

I wonder whether any of the Hauppauge developers takes notice of this ...

[SHS]

I wonder whether any of the Hauppauge developers takes notice of this ...

arnold I take it that you haven't look at WinTV 7?.