Hi, I purchased a Winfast TV2000 XP Expert capture card, with the aim of converting my old VHS tapes (PAL - I'm in Australia) to DVD. After a bit of mucking around, I can say that I am quite satisfied with the video, even though some of these tapes are over 20 years old (and still in fairly good condition - consider that a plug for BASF ) My problem is the audio quality. No matter what settings i seem to change, there is a noticeable "wow" in the audio, especially with music. Just to convince myself that it wasn't not all due to the age of the tapes, I hooked up my DVD player's composite outputs to the 2000XP, and tried the same process. Same thing again, a definite "wow" in the audio - though i will admit, not to the same degree much as from the VHS tapes. Has anyone had this problem before? Is there something blindingly obvious in the audio settings that i'm missing? As I said, I'm quite the newbie at this stuff, am I expecting too much from the Winfast card? My system: P4 2.6 Ghz+ASUS P4C800E m/board WinXP Pro Radeon 9600pro v/card 2 x Maxtor 130Gb RAID hdds'
Doesn't matter what capture card. The audio should be processed by your sound card. Use the sound card's line in port. This is providing you're using the S-Video inputs, and not analog cable.
>Doesn't matter what capture card. The audio should be processed by >your sound card. >Use the sound card's line in port. Ok, well that narrows it down a bit... I'm using the onboard sound from my m/board (not sure exactly what chipset it's using, though.) Perhaps it may be worth my while to buy a seperate soundcard? >This is providing you're using the S-Video inputs, and not analog >cable. Not applicable in my case. My VCR doesn't have S-Video out, only composite AV out. As it's getting less and less use, I would rather not have to buy a VCR with S-Video out.... but if it's the only way to go... <shrugs>
What do you mean a "wow" sound? Do you have the AUX in on TV card plugged directly to AUX In on your motherboard? If so make sure the WINFAST PVR software has the AUX selected as the Audio input. Also check your software and drivers to make sure you have the most recent version. I'm doing this from memory as I changed from the Expert to the Hauppauge PVR-150 (hardware encoding card), my system wasn't good enough to use software encoding with satisfactory results. You might want to check the forums at www.tv-cards.com - a great resource specific to tv cards. nice experts there too
> What do you mean a "wow" sound? Heh, I'm sorta glad you asked that, because it meant I had to go searching for a definition (and found out some helpful stuff on the way) From: http://www.audiovideo101.com/dictionary/wow.asp "...audible pitch distortions as the recorded material is read faster and slower and faster again resulting in an up and down roller coaster ride that is heard as pitch variations (frequency variations). " "Wow is very low in CDs and other digital disc media making it primarily a problem associated with cassette tapes and records." ...which is where i start shrugging... I'm getting wow, not only on old VHS tapes (which I would expect), but from also directly from my DVD player... I am continuing to test sound from various sources (just to see what has the problem, and what doesn't), but I was thinking it may be something that someone has run into before... Oh, yes, my audio is plugged into the Aux on my m/board, and set as Aux on the PVR softward...
On the subject of the winfast xp2000 expert model....I had to reinstall windows and have misplaced my software cd. Where can I get the software to use this tv tuner again?? Kevin
I used that card for quite awhile and never had that problem, I'd suspect audio driver problems. Try reinstalling audio drivers, and Leadtek latest version software. If this has always happened, I'd return or RMA the card to Leadtek. Some revisions of that card had audio problems.
