Please help with my Leadtek WinFast2000 TV-capture card

[Dario]

I've just installed the Leadtek WinFast2000 TV capture card but I'm far from satisfied.
Here are some questions I would be really happy if you could answer:

1. The software (CapView TV) sucks bigtime! It's hard to use and really slow (seems to be coded in VB or something even slower).
Can I use other TV tuner/capture software instead of the supplied one?

2. The TV channels I receive holds a pretty good quality when I preview them (overlay) but the picture freezes up a fraction of a second with approx 5 second intervals.
I thought that a TV card could manage a streaming high quality TV picture without any artifacts.
Is there anything I can do to avoid these problems when watching TV on my PC?

3. I can't tune in on all channels as I can on my normal standalone TV. One of my movie channels has a bad reception and the other one can't be tuned in at all.
Is there a way around this?
Is there something wrong with my TV card?
Does other manufacturers cards have a wider freq range that can cope with a larger amount of channels?

4. Is the Leadtek WinFast2000 card any good at all or should I get another card?

5. Finally; is there any software that can decode scrambled signals to watch pay TV channels (Just for evaluation purposes ofcourse!

I thought that I would get a third TV set in the house and be able to watch and capture all the channels that I normally watch but I'm very dissapointed!

Here is some info on my system:
AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
512 Mb DDR Crucial
1 IBM 60GXP 40GB + 2xSeagate BCudaIV in a RAID config
Geeforce 3
Soundblaster Live 5.1

I have my antenna cable connected to a T-connector with one of the cables going to my TV set and the other to a 10m antenna cable (unshielded) leading to my PCs TV card.
I have no decoder box. My movie channels (payed for!) are descrambled(?) centrally and distributed to me.

Please help obi w... oops wrong movie!

[vitualis]

Actually, I have this card...

The included software is quite crappy... If you are going to do any capturing, I strongly suggest VirtualDub. It works fantastically for me. On my P3 500, I can capture at 352x576 (with PicVideo MJPEG) with essentially zero frame drop. I can ALMOST capture at 704x576 at zero frame drop.

I don't know about the TV thing as I've almost never used it for that function... On the odd time when I did use it to view TV channels (for the novelty factor) it seemed to work fine for me...

As for the tuning, the tuning on this card is pathetic...

Also, make sure you download the latest drivers for the card.

Regards.

[budbrain]

Vitualis, i guess you are using win9x right?
And Dario, i have the same got damn problem, so i guess you have win2k/xp, have you got it to work yet?

Im going crazy on this!!!!!!!!!!

the same question rounds my head.,.,Why the hell do they make win2k drivers if you can´t use the card with them!!!!

ARRGHHH!!

damn leadtek

//budbrain