Using 2 Hauppauge Capture Cards

[jagabo]

Sad state of affairs at Hauppauge "engineering" these days. It's been nothing but down hill since the PVR-150.

[vhelp]

sad state..that depresses me. Wasn't the pvr-150 in bad shape a few years ago, though it took haup some time to fix,if they did that is. I recall there being a few (or many) threads on the "washout" issue with that card. A shame, I remember my first hauppauge card and I was so proud of having one, and the only person around with a tv-in-a-window now, everybody got-em, sheesh!

I was hoping to find a pvr-2250 (to re-test bitrate settup (other thread)) but can't find them anywhere in stores--was really hopping for bestbuy or in rare cases, office-max, right next to buybuy where I shop-n-brows at (online shopping is not for me)

I do hope they clean up their loosing streak.

-vhelp 5172

[SHS]

Ok now that I have my system back on line with thoses PCIe cards
I check under GraphEdit the Max is 12 CBR and 9 Peak VBR on 1800 which kind of odd
vhelp don't you mean HVR-2250 I like this one and it has some cool option but unable to get any to make use of thoses option like 16x9 mode which can be done under GraphEdit
Need to say the Max 6 CBR and 9.5 on 2250
The HVR-1600 still have 15 CBR and VBR

[SHS]

As for why the 2250 is set low has to do with the dual Recoding if it push to hard the device become unstable and lock up under dual recoding so to keep this from happing they lower the bitrate
Even at 9.5 it look dran good any way even know I don't use it that high any way the most I ever go is 6000.
And hen I talk to them I hope they get one of the Advanced Option Prooperty page like MPEG 4 (AVI Container) or (MOV Container) enable then all other at later date.

[vhelp]

@ SHS

yes, that is correct, I ment to say HVR-2250 model.

Regarding the bitrate situation and its setup.. I didn't mean to indicate through haup's configuration dialogs. I ment through registry tweaks.

Now, I'm almost sure you have one or two registry tweak utility apps on your website but I haven't seen any that go beyond the 15MBit/s limits. I think those were to "unlock" some of the features of those cards. My reg tweak went well past that just for the bitrates. In the begining, I used to use th 20MBit/s, then stretched it to 30MBit/s, and then finally 50MBit/s and later as a test, 100MBit/s, but due to my very noisy analog cabeltv at the time, it wasn't worth any bitrate max and stuck with the 30MBit/s. And these were just for potential replacements to AVI captures and in the end with the 1600, I found it useless for that purpose and went back to straight avi capturing. I suppose for clean digital sources, the 20MBit/s would be superior to the 12/15MBit/s, but I don't have digital cable my tv is snow

-vhelp 5175

[SHS]

Needless to say thoses registry tweak only work with older PVR model card only