Hauppauge WinTV PVR-USB Quality?

[Barnabas]

I would like to hear comments from users who own and use the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-USB or PVR-250. How is the SVCD quality at various bitrates? Can you cut the files with out losing sync? If any one knows of a site with some SVCD samples made with these units, I would appreciate them posting a link to the samples.

I owned an ADS USB Instant DVD but got rid of it because of poor audio, poor SVCD quality and cutting problems. I just want to make sure the Hauppauge is not going to be more of the same.

Thanks

[SHS]

try reading here
http://pvr.opcenter.de/

and here
http://www.shspvr.com/

[drdy111956]

Barnabas....best of luck. And if you are able to conquer it, let me know. I bought Win TV PVR pci a year and a half ago. Dropped the idea of digitizing VHS / TV after chronically unacceptable quality results under any settings for direct MPG1/2 generation. Poor video and sync problems. Have resumed now after much reading here, and capture AVI with Virtual Dub, edit ,and frameserve to TMPEnc. Now I can get a SVCD worth watching that is as good as a VHS tape, but of course, takes me ( Plll 650 ) about 15 hours to cap, edit, convert and burn each episode of Star Trek ( TOS). Don't know how much more time will be added if I try to delogo?

[Barnabas]

drdy111956,

Do you have the older PVR, or the newer 250-250 PVR, which has the newer IVAC chipset? Doing some research, it looks like the IVAC makes much better looking captures than the older chip did. Like you, I have upgraded to XP, mainly so I can get past the 4 gig limit and now do avi captures. I use a Pro-video PV-231 for my VCD's caps.

[drdy111956]

Barnabas..I have the older PVR. But I have continued to check for any software / driver upgrades / patches that would make this sucker give good results. Best I could come up with was capping at 12 MB/s MPG2 , which then didn't save any time as it wasn't SVCD compliant, and I still had to convert with either Ulead VDMF or TMPGEnc. Often would still have bad frames and issues in converting. Alas, it still functions as a PC TV and as a capture card, but the MPG aspect of it was very disappointing.

[SHS]

Just so you know
WinTV-PVR "Vision Tech Kfir MPEG2 video and audio encoder"
WinTTV-PVR USB "iCompression iTVC12"
WinTV-PVR 250/350 "iCompression iTVC15"

Min folks had good results from the first PVR where other didn't it all depend on the source you capture from.

[Barnabas]

Thanks for all the replies, but I still have not been able to find any site that has some SVCD captures done with this unit. If anyone knows of such a site, please post a link to it.

Thanks