Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus to external hard drive on Windows 7

[muusicman]

Hi there, I'm a new poster. I just bought the Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus and also just switched over from dish network to DirecTV. With dish network I could put an external hard drive on the receiver and copy from the onboard DVR to the external hard drive and play it back on my TV anytime I wanted. I could store things on multiple hard drives and when I wanted to watch something on any of them I could just hook it in and go directly to the contents on the external drive. With dish network if you cook and external to it, it acts as the actual DVR and disables the one inside of the receiver. The S, I cannot store things on multiple drives and watch them later on the TV. I bought this device so that I could take the contents from my DVR and store it on an external onto my computer. My question is is there supposed to be a slight quality difference between the signal the feads into The capture device from the satellite receiver? The picture on my satellite seems to be a little bit more fluid moving then that on my computer as it's being fed in. Is this normal?

P. S.
My computer is a custom built Origin PC built for gaming, it has a lot of great hardware built into it.

[usually_quiet]

The capture file will be of slightly lower visual quality than the original video, but it should be every bit as fluid unless you are capturing 1080p60 video. The Happauge HD PVR-2 GE Plus records 1080p60p (frame rate is actually 59.94 fps) video as 1080p30 (frame rate is actually 29.97 fps).

So here come the questions... What is the original resolution and frame rate of the video output of the satellite receiver and is it interlaced or progressive? is the capture file produced by the Happauge HD PVR-2 GE Plus a match in those areas? What video player are you using to play the capture? If the video being played is interlaced, is the player set up to de-interlace?

Your TV, satellite receiver, or capture software should be able to tell you the relevant details for the video output by your sat receiver. MediaInfo can tell you the same for the capture file.

[muusicman]

I truly don't know the answers to any of that. I can however. Tell you that the receiver is the DirecTV Genie model number HR44

[usually_quiet]

The model number of the satellite receiver is often very useful information, but unfortunately not in this instance.

My LCD TV can display the video resolution (1080i, 720p, or 480i) received via an HDMI or component connection if I press the Info button on the remote. The Arcsoft Showbiz software that came with my Hauppauge Colossus also displays the input resolution (1920x1080, 1280x720, or 720x480). You have never noticed anything like that on your TV or capture software?

You are either using software of some kind or a hardware media player to play the capture files from the HD-PVR GE Plus. Surely you must know what you are using to watch the capture files from the HD-PVR GE Plus.

You can download MediaInfo from VideoHelp's page for that software. If you are unsure of your ability to avoid installing the adware included with the installer for recent versions, use VideoHelp's direct download for one of the one of the portable versions, and run MediaInfo from that.

[muusicman]

Well yes, I use VLC Player

[usually_quiet]

VLC has its uses but am more likely to use Media Player Classic Home Cinema or Pot Player because VLC sometimes doesn't play video as smoothly as I would like on my system. You could try turning on VLC's de-interlacing. (Tools->Preferences->Video->Interlacing On Mode Yadif or Bob.) If that doesn't help, then other than trying a different player, and turning on its automatic de-interlacing, I have no more suggestions on account of the lack of information available to me.