Does not detect any analog connection!

[CourtneyM]

I have Vista. I also bought an HP Media center PC with those nice little audio and video plugs at the front. Firewire hookups work fine for capturing DV. When I hook up a VCR or old Camcorder with Hi-8 using only RCA cables (Audio in/out, Video in/out. No S-video present) no software detects any device at all! I also have Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 for capturing. Any suggestions? I've tried over 6 different program, even ones "approved for Vista".
Thank you!

[turk690]

The PC does not care about analogue connections; the thing relevant to it is the capture device. For example, if you connected a camcorder in pass-through mode to the FireWire port, the capture program sees the camcorder together with the a/v currently being converted to, and captured as a DV AVI stream. Plugging & unplugging analogue audio & video to the camcorder does not elicit any response from the PC, but plugging & unplugging the camcorder to the FireWire port does.
There will be a capture program to correspond to the "nice little audio & video plugs at the front" of your PC, and you can monitor whatever you input there, but the PC will NOT argue either way if you plug in something or not. The program will ONLY detect THE capture device in your PC (the one responsible for converting a to D). [/u]

[prouton]

The names will be a little different depending upon the software you're using, but the PVR card has several named inputs from which to select. They're going to be something like "antenna", "cable", "composite" and "composite 2". The name closest to "composite 2" is going to be the one to use for the front connectors.

If your choice of capture software doesn't recognize the HVR-1600, then you've got a different problem.

[Marvingj]

Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 Cards are strip of alot of goodies that the 150,250,350 have. You need a analog/digital converter box. Or use you Camcorder or DVD as a pass thru....