How to capture from the same computer?

[yoda313]

I've been trying for awhile now to record my videogame movies onto the computer. The best I've seen is FRAPS but it stutters on some sequences. I've even upped the fps all the way to 60 but I still get the slowdown. The rest is perfect but I want a 100% clean cap.

I have a radeon 9250 video card with an svideo out. I have that connected to the svideo in on my hauppauge wintv pvr250. The picture looks great. BUT when I try to dub the sound from my creative LIVE usb external soundcard I get horrible feedback.

Is there anyway to record realtime audio onto the wintv without the feedback?????

Thanks.

[junkmalle]

In the WinTV2000 app, while recording, press the pause button on the little dropdown window. That doesn't pause the recording it just mutes the audio and video. That should solve your feedback problem.

You could also use WinTvCap -- a free, command line program which just takes the mpeg stream from the PVR-250 and saves it to a file.

[yoda313]

Really? I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'll also look into the wintvcap app.

Thank.

[yoda313]

I tried the mute and it worked for a minute. The opening logo recorded perfectly with sound then everything went mute. What am I missing??? I even switched from the front output to the headphone output to the audio in on the wintv card. Still no go. I'm so close here. I appreciate the help junkmalle but i'm one step away from getting this to work right.

I haven't looked into wintvcap yet. I'll check this out later.

[junkmalle]

I'm not sure why everything went quiet. You can try these registry hacks instead:

--------------- turn off WinTV2000 display and audio
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hauppauge\hcwTVWnd]
"TV_Out_PlayLocal"=dword:00000000
--------------- end of reg file

--------------- turn on WinTV2000 display and audio
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hauppauge\hcwTVWnd]
"TV_Out_PlayLocal"=dword:00000001
--------------- end of reg file

Paste those into NotePad and save as PlayLocalOff.reg and PlayLocalOn.reg (or whatever you want to call them). You can then double click on them to make the registry changes whenever you want.

Note that WinTV2000 only reads the values when it starts up. So you have to exit WinTV2000, run the reg file, then restart WinTV2000.