WinTV-PVR 250/350 (Model 30xxx, 32xxx, 48xxx) > Drivers and Hauppauge software (PVR 250/350)

Happy or not Happy with your WinTV-PVR 250?.

<< < (3/26) > >>

SHS:
jd1961 sound you have really bad source problem been you said still show up Pinnacle which has nothing to do with PVR 250.

FKK as for thoses silicon tuner there also found in 3dfx VoodooTV 100/200 and VoodooTV FM only be available in Europe and ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV and you all ready know about the Micro Star International TV@nywhere (MS-8876).
You better do a little searching on silicon tuner you fine there no better ant analog tuner.
Tuner hardware is not out of date on WinTV-PVR 250.
What wrong with interlacing?.

jd1961:
Very true in this case - I'm transferring a friend's video of footage from his high school football days in 1989.  It was crudely edited together with three consumer VCRs, and it appears to be a second- or third- generation dub.  I tried capturing part of a storebought movie with the Pinnacle, and it worked beautifully.  So I'm just resigned to the fact that if the video is crappy in any way, you will have sync problems no matter what you're using.  Someone at Pinnacle's forum said that if you're using a noisy video, you should transfer it to a DV tape (I don't own a DV camcorder just yet, but that's the next purchase I plan), that way the time codes will keep the audio in sync.  Captures from the PVR fell out of sync even when recorded from the TV tuner if you recorded long enough.  As for the capture format, I'd rather capture in AVI than MPEG so I can edit the video beyond simply removing commercial breaks.

This Pinnacle card is part of a kit that includes some great editing/visual EFX/DVD authoring software and a little blue box that connects to the card and has audio, composite video, and S-video in/out jacks.  Yes, you can output your edited movie straight to a good ol' VCR if you want, and you can actually watch the video from your computer on a TV set.  Also, it has two IEEE-1394 ports, so I'll need no additional hardware when I get the camcorder.

I'm not trashing the Hauppauge product, nor have I become a cheerleader for the Pinnacle kit, but the Pinnacle pretty much does what I want it to do.  If Hauppage can work out the bugs, the PVR-250 could be a great alternative to an expensive TiVO.

So good luck to you guys.

Centove:
I would have to give it a NTSC Not Happy.

Causes:

- Didn't work out of the box, had to go ferret around for working drivers

- Response time on the WinTV2000 app is horrid. (click something wait 2-3 seconds for it to acknowledge it)

- Watching TV tends to glitch often (dropped frames, audio skips)

- Captures are 'intresting' to edit.

- No linux driver.

+ Captures that don't need editing are just fine in quality and look great on a TV (when dumped to DVD/VCD/SVCD)

SHS:
Centove as
1: Yes very well know problem.
2: With newest or old drivers?.
3: With newest or old drivers?.
4: What your setting.
5: This being work out.

Centove:
SHS:

1. Ok
2 & 3 - Latest AFIK (from hauppauge's site as of Aug 25 2002)
4. Don't appear to matter which profile I use

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page