A few Winfast TV2000 Expert Questions .. Help Appreciated :)

[tiger_rick]

I've just purchased the Winfast TV2000 Expert capture card and have a few questions.

1] I have an onboard sound card, and it doesn't have a 4 pin Audio in socket, only CD In. I think I need to buy a PCI soundcard, but is there a way around this? I currently have no sound because there isn't an audio in.

2] The bundled cables for S-Video/Video In from a VCR are female connectors. My VCR also has Female connectors. I have a convertor for Video/Audio In to Scart but again this has female connectors. Will a Scart to Video/Audio In lead (with male connectors) work if I connect this to the bundled cable, or do I need to buy a new cable for the Tv card? Hope that isn't too confusing!

3] The few test caps I did using the bundled WinPVR software were awful, Even at DVD quality. They were a bit distorted and seemed to be low bit-rate, even at high quality. Can anyone recommend a good capture program? I ideally want to capture directly in DVD/SVCD format.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated

Rick

[Prof-x]

1) If your connecting a RF (TV arial) into your card you need to make sure that you have connected the cable from your capture card to your sound card, inside your pc. You will need to refer to the motherboard manual if you are using onboard sound, to see if it can be done. If you do do it this way, remember that RF audio is mono only.
Alternitivly, you can buy a cable with 2 phono audio connectors (red/white) that has a single (headphone jack style) end that can be plugged into the input/record socket for your sound, just configure the PVR software to use the input/record socket for sound. You can also use the microphone socket.

2) Make sure your plugging the supplied cable in your tv/video out, i am pretty sure i only needed a male cable to get it all connected up. Not by that pc so cant check. Connect your audio in the same way i mentioned in step 1. You may want to buy a audio phono cable with a single ending and the cable with 2 single ends.


3) My capture has been flawless with this card not sure what the trouble your having could be. Realise that what you see on your tv will not look anything like that on a pc monitor becuase a pc monitor runs at a much much higher resolution than a tv. You will notice analogue signals much more and pixels will be more noticable therefore you will experience what seems to be a poor picture compared to your tv source. If your graphics card has a video out, run the pc video into your tv and see the difference of your capture compared to your monitor. Also you mentioned your video, if your capturing from vhs dont expect dvd quality, your capture is only as good as your source. VHS isnt ideal but the whole monitor issue i just mentioned will play a part.

The supplied software if a bit poorly designed, visually and nav wise, it does a very good job and gives plenty of useful options.

[tiger_rick]

Thanks for the reply mate.

I've ordered a PCI sound card, hoepfully that will sort out problem 1] !!

On no 3], my picture is definitely poor when recordingm through WinPVR. I've tried VirtualDub and it was much better, but unfortunately in AVI. Anyone know of any good capture programs that will allow me to take advantage on The card's ability to encode direct to VCD/DVD format?

Cheers

Rick

[dizidave]

I have just started using this card and the set up ive settled on is using Virtual VCR and capturing to AVI at 704x576.

It drops maybe 2 frames out of 40,000 so its pretty good.

I havent really tried capturing straight to DVD/VCD, i usually convert in tmpgenc to VCD.

[dizidave]

I have just started using this card and the set up ive settled on is using Virtual VCR and capturing to AVI at 704x576.

It drops maybe 2 frames out of 40,000 so its pretty good.

I havent really tried capturing straight to DVD/VCD, i usually convert in tmpgenc to VCD.