The UK Home Automation Archive

Archive Home
Group Home
Search Archive


Advanced Search

The UKHA-ARCHIVE IS CEASING OPERATIONS 31 DEC 2024

Latest message you have seen: XBOX help !


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: TV Cards


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: TV Cards
  • From: Mark J Cox <mark@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:16:57 +0100 (BST)
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

> I have just bought the Hauppauge PVR250 card and I can't get a decent
> quality picture out of it.

I've had a PVR250 for a while.  I had to return the first one to Scan (and
wait a month or two whilst they processed the return) as the card just
wouldn't record anything without video jumping around.  For watching TV
setting the PVR250 preferences to 12Mbps gives me quality far better than
TiVO, and for recording I use 4000kbps CBR which is just as good as my old
VHS tapes.  Switching between channels does take ages (the PVR250 looks
like it resets its mpeg encoder each time).

I did have problems with the replacement card with the sound being jumpy
(noticable on music videos), but it seemed to be a conflict with something
WinAmp3 did to my system and removing all traces of WinAmp3 cured it.

Cheers, Mark
--
Mark J Cox ........................................... www.awe.com/mark
Apache Software Foundation ..... OpenSSL Group ..... Apache Week editor




Home | Main Index | Thread Index

Comments to the Webmaster are always welcomed, please use this contact form . Note that as this site is a mailing list archive, the Webmaster has no control over the contents of the messages. Comments about message content should be directed to the relevant mailing list.