Hauppauge: Archiving TV Shows

[mkirk]

I have the Hauppauge card which is great so far. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to schedule, record and archive my favorite shows. I recently purchases Snapstream PVS which looked as if it had the ability to interact with capture hardware to grab programs as Windows Streaming Video files. You could then serve those files across your network to view. Sadly I can't seam to get this to work with my Hauppauge card and am not even sure if it's possible. Anyone doing this?

Secondly, the WInTV software is to heavy and sometimes fails when I schedule a recording. Is there a way to bypass the terrible WinTV software to record? I want as lightweight an option as possible.

Finally- Is the recorded material from the Haupaugge truly on spec? I recorded an SVCD and DVD but both seemed off spec. Before I burn I want to know if anyone knows.

-mkirk

[snowmoon]

Which hauppauge, it makes a bug diffrence as some of them have the generic bt878 chip and you can alyways load alternate drivers. If you have the PVR 250 it uses a propriatary mpeg encoding chip and no other standrd windows application can see the card.

[SHS]

snowmoon mpeg it not propriatary and only ATI had a propriatary format which could not be licensing don't you recall it AVI format that wouldn't not work on any other video card other then ATI card due to the way ATI make the decode codec.
mkirk You could do like I do and just run and FTP or Web server I think later on Windows Media Encoder 9 will suport MPEG Streaming Video files but like all thing WMP will need MPEG2 decode if you record in MPEG2.
mkirk you want take look at this I havn't try it but give a shot
http://moonlight.co.il/products/udpstreaming.shtml
or
http://www.videolan.org

[tuco1979]

I use virtualvcr and I have a Hauppauge wintv card.

[mkirk]

SHS you are a GOD.
Thanks for all the information both here and on your site. If any of you own the hauppauge cards -- you should check out SHS' web site as it's a wealth of information.

...I have a web server on a T1 connection so conceivably I can post my .mpg files to download and watch but streaming sounds like is not an option for now unless I use one of the shareware solutions like the links you shared. Anyway to take the .mpg's created by WinTV and transcode as windows streaming video files?

mkirk

[gigabass]

There is a modified virtual dub at virtualdub.net that has a build in timer with up to 6 entries. this works fine for me - you can use any virtual dub feature.
(I have Hauppauge WIN TV PCI FM)

[mkirk]

Thanks gigabase-
I just downloaded the VirtualDub application but still get an error "Cannot connect to capture device". Is there another driver I need to install?

[blindpetted]

mkirk, giga has wintv fm, virtualdub can recognize that, it can't recognize the pvr, sorry