TV Tuner Capture Software

[painface]

i have had this pc since 2005 and hated MCE almost immediately it works fine but recording tv is such a hastle with MCE's format and i have used greenbutton tools and they are ok but i'd like to find a small app just for capturing tv and save them as avi i have tried so many pay apps and free apps that say they do this but don't or crash giving horrible errors my question is does anyone know the holy grail program i need to use.? unfortunitly of everything i have tried windows movie maker works the best but can only output .WMV i have asked this so many times on so many forums i feel like a broken record, anyway, Thanks for any input and suggestions.
one NOTE: i remember a few years back i tried a pvr called christv and it seemed to be exactly what i wanted but it was very unstable.

System:
*WIN XP Media Cente Edition
*Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz, Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz
*1.00 of RAM
TV Tuner Card:
*Emuzed Angel Dual TV Tuner

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Have you tried the capture program built-in to VirtualDub?

[painface]

Hi!

Have you tried the capture program built-in to VirtualDub?

yes it gives me an error: Cannot start video compression: The operation is not supported. (error code - 1) i'm sure it's something i'm doing wrong though because while it doesn't display cideo when i do "Test Video Capture (Internal)" the test segment seems ok. so maybe i wille mess with VirtualDub a bit more. Thanks setarip_old.

[setarip_old]

Thanks setarip_old.You're quite welcome ;>}

Let us know how it goes...

[painface]

got close with virtualdubmob and virtualdub woudn't work at all

[AVIL]

I use virtualVCR but in plain windows XP and with an Hauppauge HVR1110 card. Anyway I suggest you to give it a try. You can find it at:

http://virtualvcr.sourceforge.net/

Good luck

[Spiderm@n]

Any suggestions about a program supporting Hardware Video Recording, my card is Hauppauge PVR-150.

[jeffy]

Google: WinTvCap, WinTvCapStart, GB-PVR

[Spiderm@n]

I'll give them a try. I'll have to also try BeyoundTV and SageTV, recomended in Hauppauge USA site (not mentioned in the UK site). My main problem is, that I use Vista 64 and I have 8GB RAM, and that's the reason WinTV does not work :).

[jeffy]

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?t=40488
http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=bookmark&threadid=1606219&overclockid=0

[Spiderm@n]

Nope, noting works. I guess I'll have to change my TV Tuner. Any recomendations, for something similar. Currently HVR-1300 cought my eye, but offcourse, if there is no MC version of HVR-2200 it'll be better, what do you think?

[jeffy]

Did you read http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1243069#post1243069 and tried 4.6b drivers?

[levi]

Have you tried SageTV?

[olyteddy]

@ Spidem@n: What's wrong with Hauppauge's own WinTV 2000? I use it with my PVR USB2 all the time. I believe they now have it in 64 bit too.

[Spiderm@n]

The problem's not the program. First, you don't have such problems, because you tynner is USB, mine is PCI, and when I put more then 4GB RAM (and use 64 bit OS, so they all work) the tunner won't start. Nothing works, tried changing drivers, tried many programs, but nothing. And WinTV (except it's 6, that I use, because it's the one comming with the drivers) just hangs during splash screen, it's because it can't turn the tunner on. PCI-Express tunners don't have that problem, that's why I'm waiting for one to buy it :):):).

[londonmoon]

thats what i was going to say......