Hauppauge WinTV card 23559 Rev D591

[Nelix]

Hi all

I'm new to the forum and from what I have read, there is a lot of knowledge on here that I am hoping to tap into.

I have the above PCI card installed and am hoping that I will be able to do the following. I have a CCTV camera, it's analogue so is composite out, I'm hoping to input the signal from the cam into the PCI card and use the cam software to record the footage.

Does this sound possible?

Cheers

Nelix

[usually_quiet]

Hi all

I'm new to the forum and from what I have read, there is a lot of knowledge on here that I am hoping to tap into.

I have the above PCI card installed and am hoping that I will be able to do the following. I have a CCTV camera, it's analogue so is composite out, I'm hoping to input the signal from the cam into the PCI card and use the cam software to record the footage.

Does this sound possible?

Cheers

Nelix

Your chances of getting that card to work with the CCTV camera's software are not good, unless the software documentation specifically says it supports using that particular card.

When I looked up Hauppauge 23559 Rev D591, I found a references indicating the model number you provided was assigned to the Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL. That card is designed to use its own onboard chip for encoding, producing MPEG-2 streams as output.

Third-party software generally requires capture devices that supply uncompressed video output and rely on software running on the PC to encode. They don't work with a card that uses its own hardware for encoding unless customized to support that particular card.

[Nelix]

Thanks for the reply.

Looks like I'll have to find an alternative solution.

The camera is actually an ANPR cam so I need to feed to video from it into the software for analysis and OCR to obtain Reg number, ideally I'd also like to have something with pass through so I can also plug it into the DVR for the CCTV to record footage too.

Maybe I'm asking too much of the equipment I already own and need to spend some cash on something more suited to my specific needs 😞.

Thanks again

[SHS]

If I recall right SageTV can do this even with multi cards
You can even setup WinTV to do this add multi sched recording ever 1/2 hour or even hour just be sure check box to everyday with each sched recording

[usually_quiet]

If I recall right SageTV can do this

The CCTV camera's software is designed to use OCR to read license plates and obtain the registration numbers. I very much doubt that SageTV is able to do that.

[SHS]

If I recall right SageTV can do this

The CCTV camera's software is designed to use OCR to read license plates and obtain the registration numbers. I very much doubt that SageTV is able to do that.

Hmm no it wasn't it had min diff used ages
I know what CCTV camera's software is there min diff way to do it but avg user here will not need ocr scanning tech nor the effects and etc.

PVR 500 and cam software to record the footage

That not what he ask for he just want to record video from camera output which would work with the above device so as long PVR see video coming from it then they can record like I said.

In sagetv all you do just select the source and then choose to 'Do not configure programming guide data for this source'. Then it'll just be a single channel for composite/svideo that'll show up in the EPG that it.

[usually_quiet]

I know what CCTV camera's software is there min diff way to do it but avg user here will not need ocr scanning tech nor the effects and etc.

SageTV is not the answer.

In his second post Nelix said the following:

1. He wants to use the capture card's output with his CCTV camera's software, which uses OCR to read and record plate numbers.

2. He wants to record video using the security system's DVR.

[Nelix]

The software for the camera lists the card in the list of sources but when I select the card I just get snow on the screen, I read somewhere that the composite post/input had to be enabled during installation, is this correct?

I may just have to settle for one of the USB dongles that I have seen on eBay that do composite to USB and hope it does the job.

[SHS]

The software for the camera lists the card in the list of sources but when I select the card I just get snow on the screen, I read somewhere that the composite post/input had to be enabled during installation, is this correct?

I may just have to settle for one of the USB dongles that I have seen on eBay that do composite to USB and hope it does the job.

No it will not work because the PVR are Hardware MPEG-2 Encoder where most likely the software your using is for req AVI capture card

[usually_quiet]

The software for the camera lists the card in the list of sources but when I select the card I just get snow on the screen, I read somewhere that the composite post/input had to be enabled during installation, is this correct?

I may just have to settle for one of the USB dongles that I have seen on eBay that do composite to USB and hope it does the job.

I have a different TV tuner card with composite inputs which encodes using hardware. Even if I select composite as the source, third-party software that has not been customized for my card only displays snow or a blank screen.

A USB stick type capture dongle could work. I don't know of any which do not supply uncompressed output. The main drawback with such USB capture dongles in general is that most don't have good comb filters to reduce dot-crawl artifacts when using a composite connection. Also, you would be better off with a brand-name device for which the manufacturer provides support. (If you like Hauppauge products, there is the USB-Live 2, model 01383 in the UK.) Drivers for Windows versions later than XP can be hard to find for some generic "Easycap" devices.