Recommendation of Video Capture Software for WinXP

[opey]

I have a pretty good system running WinXP and a Conexant TV tuner. I've been using Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) to capture TV programming and then converting the DVR-MS to Mpeg and that's been working well for me for 3 years. Recently that changed. MCE is now putting copy protection on some TV programs (American Movie Channel, for example). So I need to find another capture software.

Can anyone recommend a free (or low-cost) software? I have basically two hard requirements (if I can get them):
1. Software will capture programming from my Conexant TV tuner on my WinXP system
2. Software has a SCHEDULER; meaning, I can schedule the recordings in advance and they'll start recording hands-free.

Anyone?

THANKS!

[edDV]

I would get a tuner with hardware encoding. Hauppauge PVR series is well supported. Also ATI 550/650.

Then see

BeyondTV
GBPVR (free)
SageTV.

[opey]

edDV, thanks for the reply. However, I've already invested in the setup I have and don't really want to put out more $$ for a different setup.

[mgh]

if it is an analog tuner, using rf input might bypass the protection, though quality will not be as good as using component or av connection on the tuner.