Help with my Hauppauge WinTV tuner card

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  1. squizluke

    squizluke Regular member

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    I have a Model 44804 Rev. C108 Hauppauge WinTV tuner card. I want to use to record TV show to my hard drive and maybe later record them to vcd. The card came with WinTV capture software however the quality is crap. I later tried using NeoDVD to capture and the quality is better but still what i want. What i want to know is how can i make it capture at better quality. do i?
    A: Need A better Tuner Card?
    B: better Software?

    If i need better software can someone please sugest somthing. Freeware would be great.

    I think these forums are great and i thank everybody for trying help each other out.
     
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    Praetor Moderator Staff Member

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    Yeah thats Hauppage for you. I had one .. dont use it anymore.

    As for recording, you can (if ur hardware is up to it), surprisingly, get a pretty good recording off VirtualDub which incidentally, is free. :)
     
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    squizluke Regular member

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    Thanx for your quick reply.
    I have a 2.16 Ghz amd athlon cpu and 512 ram and a 80 gig hd with about 35 gig free. so i think my hardware is up to it. I'll give that software a try and let u know how i i go.

    thanx again.
     
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    I just installed VirtualDub 1.5.10.
    I cant quite work it out. is there any way i can choose what tv chanel i want to capture?
     
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    Praetor Moderator Staff Member

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    Sorry I slightly misinterpreted your original intent (i was thinking you wanted to capture from VCR via TVTuner) .... hmmm... you've already tried the software that came with the card (which was a pain in the arse to install eh? ;-)). Some applications you might want to look into, carefully arranged in random order:
    - ChrisTV Professional
    - TeVeo Live
    - WinVCR
    - BeyondTV
    - TVTool
    NOte that due to the crappiness of both TV and the TV card, your end result will be far from specatacular :)
     

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