Hauppauge 150: Odd Problem With Capturing

[Tom Saurus]

I find on occasion that mpeg2 files I have captured are somehow corupted. This doesn't happen all that often, but often enough that I remember it.

I will give an example:

I recorded a file for about 2 hours or so. G Spot is telling me it is 1 hour and 50 minutes. When I drop the file into Womble Mpeg Video Wizard it is showing up as only 16 minutes of video. I don't have a clue what causes this, but I speculate the following:

I edited some files from my capture drive over to another drive to free up some room, and I am wondering weather doing so, somehow causes this, even though I didn't touch this file in my editing.

I dropped the same file into AviDemux and it built a Index and shows me the entire length of the video. I also just used a tool in Womble Mpeg Video Wizard called Mpeg MBS Scanner and it split the file into segments called
Mpeg Timebase 01 and 02. The two files add up to the length of the original file. According to the help file in the Mpeg MBS Scanner this seems to have happened because of a timebase change.

I might be able to edit this file with these two segments. I am wondering what causes this to happen. I have been assuming that it has something to do with how fragmented the hard drive is, and with a capture drive, it becomes fragments quite fast.

I probably could of described better, but I hope someone can give me some advice. I have just deleted these files in the past, but I am beginning to think in some instances they can be saved. When problems like this occure they make one loose confidence in their computer equipment or make one think they have done something that has caused the problem.

[The_Doman]

Ah yes, that is a known problem, the Hauppauge PPVR150/500 timestamp issue.

It has nothing todo with fragmented harddrives but it is pure a driver/hardware combination issue.
I have encountered these issues a few times too with my PVR150 recordings.
Normally i am able to recover such corrupted recordings with ProjectX bij demuxing the parts before and after the bad spot in the recording.
It takes a bit of trial and error to find the bad part but it is pretty easy to do.

See also this thread: VideoReDo won't let me go any further...

[SHS]

Try this
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]
"HcwTimeStampIssue1"=dword:00000000
or dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]
"HcwTimeStampIssue2"=dword:00000000
or dword:00000001

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you both for your advice.

[Tom Saurus]

SHS: I had a recent computer meltdown and have to start over with my Hauppauge PVR 150. I am getting the computer back tomorrow. If possible could you help me abit with the timestamp issue; I don't understand how to work with the registry. The computer tech said he installed the software for the Hauppauge disc that was included with the caputure card, but from past experience I know it takes more than that to get it up and running. Thanks in advance for any help you can be to me on this issue.

[SHS]

That eazy
Open notepad paste one of the line
save it as txt rename the txt to reg then run reg file

[Tom Saurus]

SHS: Thanks for getting back to me. Should I also do this stuff as well to get the Hauppauge PVR 150 up and running?

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/255243-Tom-Saurus-Potentially-New-Computer/page2

So when I do the registry trick, I copy that text right from where it starts with [HKEYLocal until or Dword: 0000001; that is all one line that is suppose to be intact, correct? Then copy and paste the second one as well after the first is done going through regfile? Once again thank you for your advice. Have a nice day!

[TimA-C]

As has already been said before, this is a known problem with the PVR150. I use VideoRedo TVS to edit my captures - it seems to cope with the problem - save out as either .mpg or .m2v and .mpa so I can convert the audio and run a little light temporal denoising on the video, and VideoRedo seems to repair/rewrite the timestamps and all is good.

[Tom Saurus]

SHS: I was able to get the Hauppauge PVR 150 up and running because of some software on your website. However I plead stupidity because I tried the registry trick and it didn't work out for me.

I copied:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]
"HcwTimeStampIssue1"=dword:00000000
or dword:00000001

I pasted it into a notepad document and the saved it as Hauppauge01.txt and then I renamed the file to Hauppauge01.reg

I could find any information about reg file so I just tried clicking on it and a program came up but it wouldn't accept the file.

Please if possible can you give me some more instructions on how to do this; I feel very dumb at the moment. If somehow I can accomplish this hopefully the timestamp issue will be history. This timestamp issue can be dealt with using the mbs scanner in Womble Mpeg Video Wizard, but unless the flaw lands at a spot where a commercial is, and you edit out, sometimes you have a second or two of your show that has a noticable flaw and that can be frustrating, if you like to have everything intact.

[SHS]

SHS: I was able to get the Hauppauge PVR 150 up and running because of some software on your website. However I plead stupidity because I tried the registry trick and it didn't work out for me.

I copied:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]
"HcwTimeStampIssue1"=dword:00000000
or dword:00000001

I pasted it into a notepad document and the saved it as Hauppauge01.txt and then I renamed the file to Hauppauge01.reg

I could find any information about reg file so I just tried clicking on it and a program came up but it wouldn't accept the file.

Please if possible can you give me some more instructions on how to do this; I feel very dumb at the moment. If somehow I can accomplish this hopefully the timestamp issue will be history. This timestamp issue can be dealt with using the mbs scanner in Womble Mpeg Video Wizard, but unless the flaw lands at a spot where a commercial is, and you edit out, sometimes you have a second or two of your show that has a noticable flaw and that can be frustrating, if you like to have everything intact.

You need add more like this
“HcwTimeStampIssue1”=dword:00000001
“HcwTimeStampIssue2”=dword:00000000

TimeStampIssue1
Alternative
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]"HcwTimeStampIssue1"=dword:00000000

Default
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]"HcwTimeStampIssue1"=dword:00000001

TimeStampIssue2
Alternative
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]"HcwTimeStampIssue2"=dword:00000000

Default
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\hcwPP2\DriverData]"HcwTimeStampIssue2"=dword:00000001


By google HcwTimeStampIssue1 or HcwTimeStampIssue2
It main used for recordings timelines or Incorrect playback length

[Tom Saurus]

SHS: Thank you for getting back to me. So I should copy:

"HcwTimeStampIssue1”=dword:00000001 into notepad, name the notepad as HTSI_01.txt and then rename it to HTSI_01.reg and then click on that and that program should fix that part.

Then I should then paste:
"HcwTimeStampIssue2”=dword:00000000 into another notepad and name it HTS1_02.txt and then rename it to HTSI_02.reg and then click on that and the program that comes up sets things right.

If I have misunderstood please enlighten me, when it comes to this registry stuff, I seem so out of my depth. Thanks in advance for any additional help.

[SHS]

you can do it any you want
Must people are using this
“HcwTimeStampIssue1”=dword:00000001
“HcwTimeStampIssue2”=dword:00000000
in one reg file

[Tom Saurus]

SHS: Thank you for input. I will give that a try. I am hoping I won't have to update any drivers or stuff like that. Hopefully this will do the trick. I appreciate your expertise and dedication to understanding Hauppauge Video Capture Products.

[Tom Saurus]

I pasted:

“HcwTimeStampIssue1”=dword:00000001
“HcwTimeStampIssue2”=dword:00000000

into notepad and I had to select "all files" while saving and name it a .reg file right from the start, because for some reason it remains a .txt file now even when I rename it a .reg file.

I noticed that if I right click this created .reg file an option is available called Merge.

It seems if I right click on this file and select "open with" that the recommended program is called Registry Editor. What do I do after that? I am sorry I am very slow at catching on how to do this. Thanks in advance for any additional advice.