WinTV-PVR 250/350 (Model 30xxx, 32xxx, 48xxx) > Drivers and Hauppauge software (PVR 250/350)
Happy or not Happy with your WinTV-PVR 250?.
ovra:
--- Quote from: Unadude ---I have the NTSC PVR-250.
There are some products on the market which make
the PVR-250 work as I invisioned it would when I bought it.
Edit Studio 4 (www.puremotion.com) with the
MpegXS plugin and DVD-Lab (http://www.mediachance.com/).
--- End quote ---
Why would you need the MpegXS plugin, unless you reencode the capture?
The point of PVR is that it encodes in hardware.
markl951:
I've had the PVR250/mediaMVP combo for about a month now and like it for the most part. I use the TitanTV/WinTV Scheduler to record TV shows and watch them on my TV. I'm using the beta 1.8.22170 drivers found on this web site.
Is there a way to adjust the recorded picture quality? I've noticed that recordings that include scenes with bright sunlight appear overexposed and washed out. It doesn't matter if I record a TV channel program or something on the S-Video input channel. They are both the same. I record mostly using DVD Longplay mode but I've tried other modes too. It's still the same.
I found by experiment that playing with the WinTV 2000 brightness and contrast controls seems to affect the recorded quality of the .mpg file although I thought that was for playback only.
I've searched around some but can't find an answer. Is there a good place for a video noob to read up on this stuff?
Thanks
ovra:
--- Quote from: markl951 ---
Is there a way to adjust the recorded picture quality?
--- End quote ---
Here you can find some information:
http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4520
Y2J2004:
Definitely not happy with this product. So many people I have read on reviews have praised it. LOL Well I would if I could get this thing going. But after spending about 8 hours trying by reintalling it over and over and reconnecting the satellite reciever, dvd player and vcr over and over and getting nothing. My opinion waste of money..stay away from it.
I gotta find someone to buy it from me now cuz I cannot return it for a refund..only an exchange or store credit. Future Shop blows here in Toronto.
agoodspellr:
Problems I've had with this board:
1) DVD Movie Factory crashes every time I drag a captured file onto it.
2) WinTV2K usually won't boot with hTV=0 error. After a few reboots I can get it working again by luck. Found the registry hack in the forums, but I shouldn't have to do that.
3) I don't use the remote. I'd love a way to get rid of that remote icon in the lower corner. Also I don't understand what the difference is between WinTV2K and WinTV32. At the very least, once I choose one, the next time it should choose that one automatically if I double-click on on the remote button.
4) The scheduler drives me nuts, because it forces me to choose the date before I choose the time, and keeps resetting the time, sometimes even if the date is alright. At the very least, the date should be above the time so that you choose it first. Really, it should follow standard software design models, and show a warning when you hit Save Changes - resetting values that a user just put in is very frustrating. I'm not so stupid that I don't know that I've put in a time earlier in the current day. There are other problems with the layout - there should be a larger size window preference that doesn't require clicking on the date to get at the calendar, and more stations in the listbox on the right (assuming you're not comfortable making a resizable window). On a small window like that, the listbox for the stations should really be a drop-down list instead - scrolling through that tiny window is a real pain.
5) The card drops tons of PTS audio frames. Tons. Also there are apparently a lot of time code errors. Every file I capture I have to run through MPEG Video Wizard 2003's Program Stream Converter to get rid of the dropped audio frames. (It just fills in the missing ones with the previous good audio frame, which isn't noticable.) If this isn't done, and you make a cut on a frame that is missing audio, the entire clip will lose its audio - but only when you burn it to DVD(!). I've also had problems with the dropped audio frames and/or time code errors causing lip sync problems if I edit in certain programs. The number of errors seems to go up dramatically after a half-hour or an hour or recording. Since this has to be fixed before you edit the file, I frequently forget and end up with a screwed DVD. I know mpg is compressed, but surely there is a way to fill in those frames using software while the program is recording.
6) I didn't have any problems with the nanoPEG editor - the audio problems were from the files - but again a resizable window would be nice. It's damn hard to edit on that small timeline.
These problems have collectively cost me at least 40 hours of much needed time, not to mention dozens of wasted DVDs.
On the positive side, I'm amazed at what I can do on my computer without causing any degradation in the quality of the video. (I've rerendered files while recording to DVD quality.) As a PVR it's really quite good once you get it working. I think that you have a product here that has great potential - there are just a bunch of niggling problems (all fixable) that unfortunately make it unusable for the average user who wants to make DVDs. I hope you'll take this as constructive criticism and try to solve some of these problems both for existing and new users.
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