WIN TV PVR-250

[Jimapelican]

I'm looking to buy this card but have a few questions.
I have a DV cam and I usually upload my video by firewire, so i'm used to clear video with no problems.
How is the Mpeg 2 hardware encoder quality to the original with this card? How does the quality compare to software encoding? I used a few different software programs but I didn't think the results were that good.
I used Cinema craft encoder and thought the quality was pretty good but I took forever to encode the video.
I heard there is problem running this card in windows 2000?
Can anyone clear things up?

[Jimapelican]

Nobody owns this card? I just need to know a little info about the quality of the MPEG2 encoding.

[geniv]

the quality of the MPEG2 encoding is very good. I did a "DVD Standard" 2 minute cap off a DVD using S-Video and the picture was near perfect to the original video. (these days most mpeg2 cap cards gives pretty much the same quality. but compred to the Dazzle DVC, and RealMagic DVR I would say the picture quality is better. and it's not nearly as expensive as the RealMagic DVR)


the VCD capture quality on this is very good also. (I owned numerous mpeg1 capture cards before and this one ) is one of the best one I seen, right next to the PV231/233.

I only got this card 3 days ago. I have not tried any extended captures (about 2 hours) so I can't vouch for a/v sync but I have yet to hear any story about the card giving captures with a/v sync problems.

Have heard of people having problem with Win2k. and software/driver issues but I use WinXP Pro and I download and applied all the latest patches/driver before using the card and I never had any problems.

[Beavis]

Do a forum search and you'll find some info and links. You will find
that some people have had installation problems, but the latest drivers from Hauppage seem to help a lot.

Once it's working on your system, most people are happy with it.

[ItsMe]

You will not be able to use the PVR 250's hardware encoder to transcode DV files after editong. The only way you could use the card for DV would be to capture using firewire, edit the DV stream, write it back to your camcorder and then capture it using the analogue input on the PVR 250.