Capturing with WinTV 2000

[drwho41963]

I have a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card with remote. I installed WinTV 2000. When I capture TV programs and burn it to DVD it is synce'd but it looks pixelated and the video hesitates. I captured the programs as mpeg and divx same problem. I used Pinnacle Studio version 9 with latest updates. I also used Sonic DigitalMedia LE v7 and the same problem. I also used TMPGENC Express same problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running Windows XP Media Center on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 1gig memory and 144 gig drive with 29gig free.

[TaoTeWingChun]

I hope you have *more* than a single 144GB drive in that system! As a rule, it is ALWAYS a good idea to capture to a NON-SYSTEM drive - and as a rule I usually capture to a completely different physical drive, not just logical.

I imagine that you are running other programs while attempting to capture as well, which will also adversely affect your captures.

Post back more info for further clarification, ok?

Cheers!

TTWC

[drwho41963]

Thanks for the reply and help with not only this problem but the avi error question. As for my system. The 144gig drive is my system drive and I have 72gig free. I always stop all apps. via task manager before capturing. I think I'm going to add a 20gig drive to my system and see what happens. If this does not fix it what else would you suggest?

[olyteddy]

IIRC, Hauppauge sells two versions of a lot of their cards and drivers. One for MCE and one for the rest. Have you checked over on SHS forums about this? You may just need a better driver.