WinTV-HD software needed (not HVR, PVR, Nova, but for original PCI card)

[cybertheque]

Greetings,

I just got an Hauppauge WinTV-HD card (PCI) without the CD-ROM with which it would have originally been bundled.
I downloaded the 'update' drivers from Hauppauge's support site but they are not a complete or standalone driver
set (no INF file for example) and are intended to update an original software installation.

I cannot find the operating software or drivers for the card on the 'Net; I would appreciate a link to an archive site or
a kind soul willing to email them to me.

Thanks,

Michael

[cybertheque]

I grabbed a bunch of files from ftp.hauppauge.com, in different directories, many cryptically named, and am in the
process of testing them (determining install order, versioning issues, o/s dependencies, failure modes, etc.). I'll
update the thread when results are available. At this point I have installed the most recent-by-timestamp JANUS
chipset driver (for this card) that I could find (so far) on the site, and now have the task to find a version of WinTV
viewer that doesn't crash the o/s when started (currently testing with XPSP1, but will try Win2kSP4 too).

EDIT: the o/s crashing (spontaneous rebooting) appears to be a driver issue and not the fault of the viewr app.
Running 'amcap.exe', using the Janus capture driver causes crashes.

EDIT: installed card in Win2k SP4 machine; using various drivers and running 'amcap.exe' on them causes either
hangs of the app (when selecting preview pin while in preview mode) or spontaneous reboot, depending
on version of driver installed. At no point have I seen over the air video yet in preview.

[cybertheque]

Gave up on XP. In Win2k SP4, drivers dated 05-21-2002 don't crash but so far no application can get video from them.
Amcap shows either green screen (with or without occassional white lines) or a black screen from tuner inputs, and
WinTV2000 (various versions tried) show similar behavior. Channel scanning in WinTV2000 takes about 5 minutes
per channel (so 69 channels of analog and 69 channels of ATSC take about 1 1/4 hour) and no signals are detected.

Tried Win98SE; drivers install, but WinTV2000 (and WinTV32) both expect a missing deinterlace filter 'hcwdlace.ax'
which the driver installation registered. I used a version from a Hauppauge WDM driver collection dated 2002 (for
a different PVR product perhaps). Amcap (which BTW is _bundled_ with the Hauppauge driver archive) complains
'cannot preview this filter graph'. WinTV2000 complains:

Error: Connecting Vcap and the Video Renderer Filters: HR=0x80040217
WinTV32: Failed to create TV Window hTV=0x10d7bc0 Err=1 (for WinTV2000) or hTV-0x10e0e34 (for WinTV32)

These tests were done on two machines: a PIII-500 IBM 300PL and a Gateway 1.3GHz Celeron Intel 815 chipset

None of this makes any sense to me; I cannot believe that the product did not work in some systems unless online
reviewers simply lied. What could the reference platform (hardware and o/s) have been?

[SmokieStover]

For all things Hauppauge, start here:

http://www.shspvr.com/smf/

[cybertheque]

For all things Hauppauge, start here:

http://www.shspvr.com/smf/

Thanks for the tip; I gave it a shot in the 'Other WinTV' forum but a search of the entire site archive yields only three posts
which reference this card in any way so I don't hold out much hope over there ;)